Staff Systems Engineer

Staff Systems EngineerAt Serve Robotics, we're reimagining how things move in cities. Our personable sidewalk robot is our vision for the future. It's designed to take deliveries away from congested streets, make deliveries available to more people, and benefit local businesses.The Serve fleet has been delighting merchants, customers, and pedestrians along the way in Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas, Atlanta and Chicago while doing commercial deliveries. We're looking for talented individuals who will grow robotic deliveries from surprising novelty to efficient ubiquity.Who We AreWe are tech industry veterans in software, hardware, and design who are pooling our skills to build the future we want to live in. We are solving real-world problems leveraging robotics, machine learning and computer vision, among other disciplines, with a mindful eye towards the end-to-end user experience. Our team is agile, diverse, and driven. We believe that the best way to solve complicated dynamic problems is collaboratively and respectfully.As a Staff Systems Engineer, you are responsible for ensuring that our robot is safe, robust, performant, and satisfies market/customer needs. You will own the decomposition of requirements, architectures, and specifications of an autonomous last-mile delivery robot, from high-level system requirements and architecture all the way to low-level component selection criteria and performance budgets. You will serve as the glue of the organization, working across many teams and disciplines to help orchestrate the development of a complex system by breaking high-level goals down into actionable information across various functions.ResponsibilitiesLead interdisciplinary teams to decompose system functions, behaviors, and features into actionable engineering requirements and specifications for an autonomous last-mile delivery robotFacilitate the development of actionable metrics to evaluate the performance of components, subsystems, and systems throughout the robot, both in the lab and in the fieldDevelop frameworks and facilitate trade studies to optimize system and subsystem designs for performance, safety, and cost, particularly negotiating between hardware and software to find the best design solutionLead interdisciplinary teams through complex root-cause analysis and resolution in which there are many possible root causes that involve various areas of engineering, using a structured approach for problem solvingWork closely with Systems Verification & Validation Engineers to define verification & validation plans that ensure the delivery of a safe and responsible autonomous productQualificationsB.S. in Mechanical, Electrical, Software or equivalent engineering field12+ years of experience in the design and analysis of complex electromechanical and/or robotic systemsExperience in systems engineering and requirements management including systems analysis, requirements decomposition, and verification & validationExperience in data analysis of test results including probability and statistical analysis techniquesHands-on approach to the test and debugging of electromechanical systemsFundamental knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and software engineeringExcellent written and verbal communication skills for audiences ranging from technicians to senior executivesWhat Makes You StandoutM.S., or Ph.D in Mechanical, Electrical, Software or equivalent engineering fieldExperience in one or more of the following industries: automotive, medical, aerospace, roboticsExperience in autonomous systems and/or mobile roboticsExperience working in Unix/Linux environments