Humble Robotics
Staff Hardware Systems Engineer (Vehicle Architect)
San Francisco · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 20, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of systems engineering on vehicles or robots.
- Education
- BS in Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, or Computer Engineering.
About the job
Lead systems engineering and vehicle architecture for an autonomous vehicle platform, from requirements and design decisions through verification, validation, and issue resolution.
What you'll do
- Own vehicle-level systems requirements and architecture across compute, networking, sensors, telematics, and power distribution; evaluate cross-domain trade-offs.
- Lead design reviews, requirement-based verification and validation, and root-cause analysis with hardware, software/autonomy, functional safety, and test teams.
- Coordinate with mechanical engineering and functional safety, including requirement alignment and ISO 26262 safety analysis and traceability.
What they ask for
- BS in Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, or Computer Engineering.
- 8+ years of systems engineering on vehicles or robots.
- Owned vehicle-level E/E architecture on a program that reached DV, PV, SOP, or fleet deployment; served as technical lead for systems engineers.
- Wrote testable requirements, ran requirement-based V&V across HW, SW, and test teams, and performed practical ISO 26262 work including HARA, safety goals, and ASIL decomposition.
Nice to have
- Experience at an AV, robotaxi, autonomous trucking, or ADAS program at an OEM/Tier-1; heavy-duty truck or articulated vehicle experience.
- Experience building a systems engineering team, selecting requirements-management tooling, HIL/SIL strategy, or production-vehicle powertrain, chassis, or HV traction systems.
Tools
ISO 26262, HARA, ASIL, HIL/SIL
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