Head of Systems Engineering (Senior Director)

What you'll do

• Own systems engineering strategy, requirements, architecture, validation, safety case, technical risk, and deployment readiness.
• Translate product, safety, and commercial goals into requirements, performance targets, validation plans, and launch frameworks.
• Build and lead the Systems Engineering organization and coordinate cross-functional readiness and launch decisions.

What they ask for

• 10+ years of systems engineering experience in a related field, including 7+ years managing managers and scaling engineering organizations.
• Experience leading systems engineering or equivalent functions for complex hardware and software products, including safety-critical development.
• Track record developing senior technical leaders, recruiting talent, and building high-performing teams.
• Excellent communication skills for explaining complex technical tradeoffs to engineering, executive, and cross-functional audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience with modern autonomy stacks and validation of ML-based and end-to-end AI systems.
• Experience with vehicle platforms, embedded systems, automotive-grade hardware, compute systems, sensor integration, hardware/software co-design, or V&V strategies for public-road or regulated environments.

Pay

$283,640 and $425,960 (USD, base pay)

Tools

Nuro Driver™, perception, prediction, planning, localization, mapping, sensing, compute

AI focus

Leads systems engineering for autonomous driving, including validation challenges for ML-based and end-to-end AI systems in real-world environments.