Staff Systems Engineer, Cruise

• BS, MS, or PhD in Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or another related field
• 10+ years of postgraduate experience in systems engineering, robotics, systems analysis, data analysis, statistical analysis, project management or other related fields
• Industry experience in system engineering and requirements management including system analysis, requirements authoring, test generation, and validation activities
• 2+ years of industry experience leading small teams
• Experience with driving requirements for SW systems, AI/ML systems, and managing traceability between program level directives to feature list
• Understanding of safety analysis including fault tree analysis and hazard analysis
• Experience verifying requirements using multiple types of verification methods with an emphasis on simulation
• Proficient in documenting requirements using off-the-shelf tools
• Strong written and verbal communication skills from presentations to senior leadership to authoring requirements
• Experience writing SQL and Python code to analyze large data sets coming out of hardware systems
• Excellent critical and analytical thinking skills: you can interpret what the data is telling us, and which analyses will reveal impactful conclusions
• Fluent in data-based and analytical engineering problem solving practices, including using paretos, root cause analysis, and more
• Ability to adapt and operate under ambiguity

Desirable

• Decompose the top-level system functions, behaviors and features into a set of requirements that specify the expected end-to-end system and driving behavior
• Ensure that the respective Requirement Documents is necessary and sufficient to fulfill the goal of a safe, legal and responsible autonomous product
• Communicate early and often with partner teams, document the requirements and decisions, hold reviews
• Develop and maintain clear development pipelines, workflows and dashboards for these functions, and partner closely with the development teams on the most effective way to engineer driving behaviors
• Define a verification plan and test methods for the function or behavior, at the integrated system level, that verifies the end-to-end implementation of the function
• Lead and coordinate systems engineering activities
• Develop/update new systems engineering processes
• Develop and maintain clear development pipelines, workflows and dashboards for these functions, and partner closely with the development teams on the most effective way to engineer driving behaviors