Senior/Staff System Engineer Mountain View, CA

Who we are:

Gatik, the leader in autonomous middle mile logistics, delivers goods safely and efficiently using its fleet of light & medium-duty trucks. The company focuses on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 customers including Kroger, Walmart, Tyson Foods, Loblaw, Pitney Bowes, Georgia-Pacific, and KBX; enabling them to optimize their hub-and-spoke supply chain operations, enhance service levels and product flow across multiple locations while reducing labor costs and meeting an unprecedented expectation for faster deliveries. Gatik’s Class 3-7 autonomous box trucks are commercially deployed in multiple markets including Texas, Arkansas, and Ontario, Canada.

About the role:

This role is essential and fundamental to ensure systems operate predictably at all times. The team is also responsible for supporting bring up R&D + Production test benches and support manufacturing operations for the vehicle. Gatik is hiring a Sr/Staff Systems Engineer to help speed up our autonomous truck development. As a system engineer, you will oversee the deployment of next-generation compute, sensor, Dbw and data networking systems for autonomous vehicles. This role will be onsite in Mountain View, CA headquarters.

What you will do:

• Establish model-based system engineering (MBSE) and methodologies for requirements management. Allocate functional and performance requirements, making sure they cascade down to the various stakeholders and abstraction levels of the system.
• Provide comprehensive advance systems expertise in integrating and bringing architecture changes and component revisions, thus ensuring that new configurations work as expected.
• Responsible for writing test cases and executing systems integration tests at different abstraction levels of the system such as Hardware in Loop (HiL), Vehicle in Loop (ViL).
• Manage requirements across the V-cycle establishing traceability with product, design, performance, implementation, hardware, software, and verification & validation teams.
• Collaborate with internal hardware and software teams and external vendors to ensure requirements are consistently met and the desired functionality achieved.
• Hands-on vehicle bring up of in-house high compute ECUs and full autonomy sensor suite for data collection and logging.
• Build, implement, and run test benches with proprietary or industry-standard tools to evaluate, document and identify problems with hardware-software integration.
• Lead and drive debugging of the HW/SW issues to closure. Identify and work with key cross-functional partners to root cause and provide resolution.
• Implement systems engineering processes cross-functionally with other teams including review & support of requirements, and evaluate architecture robustness.
• Inform system design decisions across hardware, software and other functional blocks of the AV systems according to established industry standards and best practices.
• Triage system software bugs & defects and investigate perceived issues, escalating when appropriate and driving to resolution.
• Update and suggest changes to upstream processes and/or code after root cause investigation in collaboration with domain SMEs.
• Establish and take ownership of end-to-end automation of manual tests and come up with clear KPIs, metrics and quality benchmarks to support statistical validation.
• Work closely with software developers, systems engineers, and other internal and/or external stakeholders to ensure that design and implementation are in sync.

What we are looking for:

• 8+ years experience writing and managing requirements for complex systems with a hardware and software aspect.
• Experience with requirements management and (model based) systems engineering tools such as Jama, SysML, ANSYS Medini, DOORS, etc.
• Deep technical experience with complex, safety-critical systems following SE best practices.
• Hands-on experience with latest AV technologies and debugging complex systems that involve sensors, compute, networking, etc. that interface with various vehicle subsystems.
• Experience with designing and deploying test setups on the bench, HiL, and/or the vehicle.
• Ability to communicate effectively with subject matter experts for deriving and capturing requirements.
• Excellent organization skills in helping cross-disciplinary teams collaborate, communicate and deliver together.
• Experience in systems standards such as IEEE 29148, ISO 15288, 42010, IEC 24748, and functional safety IEC 61508, ISO 26262, DO178 or similar.
• Experience validating systems in following industry standards and best practices for performance and safety such as ISO, IEC, FMVSS, SAE, AVSC, etc.
• Deep understanding of vehicle system architectures and autonomous systems that would meet world-leading AV standards.
• Relevant certifications in FuSa, CySe, Systems Engineering or equivalent.