System Integration Engineer

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architectural decisions for new robot subsystems — communication protocols, control strategies, and hardware-software partitioning — alongside firmware/controls, mechanical, and electrical teams
• Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, safety, and firmware teams to define interfaces and validation strategies early, and lead calibration and tuning efforts to hit performance targets
• Define software requirements from high-level system requirements, using first-principles analysis and hardware/model-based testing — from top-level robot performance targets down to subsystem budgets and interfaces
• Prototype and characterize components and full systems; design early builds to de-risk new technologies before committing to production architecture
• Debug hardware-software interactions hands-on during design, launch, and field deployment — pulling and analyzing logs, adding debug instrumentation/tracing to firmware and software, and recompiling and re-flashing to isolate root cause — and surface nth-order impacts of electrical, software, or process changes before they become problems
• Analyze failure modes, complete DFMEAs/HARAs, and define system-level test plans from bench testing through field deployment
• Drive readiness reviews, sign-off, and post-launch monitoring across firmware, hardware, controls, reliability, and manufacturing stakeholders

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years in systems engineering or a cross-disciplinary hardware role involving complex electromechanical or robotic products
• Strong hardware and software fundamentals — able to bridge electrical schematics, embedded communication protocols, and firmware architecture; comfortable with a scope and multimeter during bring-up
• Hands-on experience debugging complex subsystems involving networked microprocessors and software-controlled electromechanical devices — comfortable reading, modifying, and recompiling C/C++ firmware/software yourself to add debug logging, instrument code paths, and iterate on a fix, not just reading code to hand off to firmware engineers
• Able to define requirements from high-level system behaviors and make them measurable and testable; able to write scripts or tooling to improve bring-up and validation efficiency
• Proficient in data analysis and visualization — able to instrument systems, extract signal from noisy hardware data, and communicate findings clearly across mechanical, electrical, and software teams
• You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an "engineering curiosity" that drives you to understand how the entire system works, not just your part

Nice To Haves

• Background in robotics, EV powertrains, drones, or other dense electromechanical systems
• Exposure to manufacturing self-test design or service diagnostics
• Experience with functional safety standards (ISO 26262, IEC 61508) or automotive/robotics validation processes
• Experience in failure modes analysis, HARA, and FTA