Staff Hardware Systems Engineer, Lead

Job Description

Job Description

About Humble Robotics

Working at Humble Robotics means taking on the biggest change in ground transportation in decades. We’re building an autonomous, zero-emissions hauler that dramatically lowers the cost of freight with groundbreaking vision-based AI, designed for today’s global logistics network. 

We’re a fast-moving, close-knit team of AV industry veterans and innovative thinkers. We don’t believe culture can be engineered – but when it falls into place, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime adventure.

Progress has never felt so present.

Position Overview

Lead systems engineering across our autonomous vehicle platform. Own system-level requirements and architecture, and make the technical decisions that cross compute, networking, sensors, telematics, and power distribution. Translate product and safety goals into clear, testable requirements, and drive the design reviews and validation that prove them out end-to-end. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you set the direction and stay in the details.

Key Responsibilities

• Own systems engineering across the product. Set the system architecture and make the final call on cross-domain trade-offs.
• Build and lead the systems engineering team. Hire and mentor engineers, and set the standard for requirements, reviews, and V&V.
• Decompose vehicle-level requirements down to subsystem and component level across compute, networking, sensors, telematics, power distribution, and articulate the rationale behind each.
• Partner with Mechanical Engineers to align on mechanical requirements - durability, vehicle dynamics, enclosures, sealing, etc.
• Drive the end-to-end requirements process: capture, review, baseline, and change control. Select and stand up the tooling that makes the highest impact (we are not tied to Jama or DOORS).
• Support system performance analysis, deviation analysis, structured testing, debugging, and system improvements.
• Run cross-functional design reviews and orchestrate verification and validation of requirements with HW, SW/Autonomy, Functional Safety, and Test teams.
• Partner with Functional Safety on HARA, safety goals, and ASIL-driven technical safety requirement decomposition; ensure traceability from item definition to test.
• Interface with SW/Autonomy on interfaces, timing, compute, and networking budgets; own the system-of-systems view and arbitrate trade-offs across domains.
• Lead root-cause analysis for cross-domain issues surfaced in bring-up, DV, or on-vehicle; feed learnings back into requirements and architecture.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS in Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, or Computer Engineering; 8+ years of high-impact systems engineering experience in automotive or similarly rigorous domains.
• Technical lead or manager for systems engineering on a vehicle or robotics program, with engineers who depended on your decisions.
• End-to-end ownership on at least one automotive program from requirements definition through DV, PV, and SOP or fleet deployment, not just one slice of the V-cycle.
• Broad working knowledge of every major hardware domain on a vehicle: compute/SoCs, in-vehicle networking (CAN/CAN FD, Automotive Ethernet, LIN), sensors (camera, radar, lidar, IMU, GNSS), telematics, HV/LV power distribution, chassis, and powertrain.
• Demonstrated ability to write clear, testable requirements and defend the rationale behind them in cross-functional reviews.
• Hands-on experience orchestrating design reviews, DFMEAs, and requirement-based V&V campaigns across multiple disciplines.
• Fluency with functional safety (ISO 26262) and practical use of HARA, safety goals, and ASIL decomposition.
• Comfortable working through ambiguity and defining the process - requirements tooling, review cadence, traceability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience at an AV, robotaxi, autonomous trucking, or ADAS program at OEM/Tier-1.
• Built or grew a systems engineering team at an early-stage company.
• Track record of selecting, deploying, or replacing requirements management tooling.
• Exposure to HIL/SIL strategy and the instrumentation needed for on-vehicle verification.
• Experience working directly with powertrain, chassis, and/or HV traction systems on production vehicles.
• Heavy-duty truck or articulated vehicle experience.

Compensation

Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including qualifications, skills, experience, and location. We also offer competitive equity compensation and benefits.

As part of the interview process, we may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to compare your qualifications and experience to the job description. A human reviews all AI output and makes a final hiring decision. Humble Robotics does not rely on the output to make any employment decisions. Some applicants may have a legal right to opt-out of the use of AI as part of our interview process. Contact View email address on ziprecruiter.com to exercise this right or if you have further questions on the use of AI tools in our hiring process. 

Humble Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law. Humble Robotics will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with local ordinances.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.