Senior Systems Engineer, Platform Requirements and Interfaces
Senior systems engineer who owns system/subsystem requirements, interface control documents, and verification plans for Atoms' autonomous vehicle and truck platforms in San Francisco (onsite 5 days/week) — decomposing platform requirements into sensing, compute, network, and power allocations and confirming test evidence, using tools like Jama, DOORS, or Polarion.
- Compensation
- $176K–$241K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Systems Engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of systems engineering experience
- Experience authoring system requirements for a vehicle, robotics, or comparable hardware/software system, including decomposition, allocation, and traceability to verification
- Experience writing and maintaining interface control documents (or equivalent interface specifications) between hardware and software subsystems
- Working experience with a requirements management tool such as Jama, DOORS, or Polarion, including structure, attributes, and traceability configuration
- Experience writing verification plans and acceptance criteria and confirming test results against requirements
- Working knowledge of vehicle networks and interfaces, including CAN, CAN FD, and Automotive Ethernet, and of sensor and compute interfaces and time synchronization
- Experience on an autonomous vehicle or robotics platform
- Experience handling autonomous driving or robotics sensor data across multiple modalities and timestamps, including camera, LiDAR, and radar
- Proficiency in Python for data analysis, test automation, and tooling, and the ability to read C++
- Experience working where the requirements and the platform were still changing
- Strong written practice covering system requirements, interface specifications, and verification reports, including the limits of a result
- Ability to work onsite five days a week in San Francisco
Full description
Who we are
Atoms is building the machines that power the next era of progress.
Over the last decade, software has transformed the digital world. But the physical world, where food is made, minerals are mined, goods are moved, and industries are run, remains far less intelligent, far less efficient, and far more constrained. We’re changing that.
Atoms builds Physical AI— real-world robots for the industries that move civilization forward, starting with food, mining, and transport. Our systems are designed to understand, predict, and control the real world with precision, turning complex physical operations into something more reliable, more scalable, and more productive.
This work requires more than robotics. It requires deep integration across hardware, software, AI, operations, manufacturing, and real estate. We don’t just build machines in a lab. We deploy them into real environments, operate them, learn from them, and improve them until they work at scale.
We are roboticists, engineers, operators, and builders. We believe the next great technology companies will not only transform information, but the physical systems that shape everyday life.
If you want to work on hard problems with real-world impact, join us.
About the role
We are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to own the system requirements and interface control documents for our autonomous vehicle and truck platforms. In this role, you will take a platform from platform-level requirements, to decomposed and allocated subsystem requirements, to a verification plan with results confirmed against each requirement, working out how the autonomy kit's sensing, compute, networks, and power meet the vehicle or machine it is installed on. You will do this across OEM vehicle platforms and off-highway trucks, and you'll build the requirements and interface documentation that each new platform variant is specified and verified against.
What you’ll do
- System requirements. Write and maintain system and subsystem requirements for the vehicle and truck platforms you own, including decomposition from platform-level requirements, allocation to sensing, compute, vehicle networks, power, actuation, and autonomy software, and traceability to verification.
- Interface control documents. Build and maintain the interface control documents between the autonomy kit and each vehicle or truck platform, and between the subsystems within the kit, covering signals, networks, power, timing, mounting, and data. Run the review and change process for the interfaces you own.
- Requirements management and traceability. Run the requirements management toolchain: structure, attributes, baselines, change tracking, and traceability from requirement to design to verification evidence.