TAR
Systems Engineer, Robotics
San Francisco Bay Area · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 15, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years; systems engineering, systems integration, or multidisciplinary design engineering on complex robotic or electromechanical systems.
About the job
Owns machine-level systems engineering for TAR’s robotics program, taking robots from requirements and concept of operations through integration, verification, safety, and field commissioning.
What you'll do
- Derive machine requirements, use cases, interfaces, and error and performance budgets with subsystem teams.
- Plan and run machine-level verification and validation; own performance evidence, reliability analysis, and safety architecture.
- Integrate, bring up, and commission machines, including at the West Texas site, and feed field learnings into requirements.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in systems engineering, systems integration, or multidisciplinary design engineering on complex robotic or electromechanical systems.
- Cross-discipline fluency in mechanical, electrical, and software engineering; experience taking a machine or vehicle from prototype to deployment at the system level.
- Hardware requirements definition, flow-down, and traceability; cross-discipline debugging using scopes, logic analyzers, telemetry, and logs.
- Cross-functional stakeholder management and Python or similar for analysis, budgets, and tooling.
Nice to have
- Safety analysis or functional safety for mobile machinery or heavy equipment; FMEA, FRACAS, or formal reliability experience.
- Field commissioning of outdoor or industrial systems; first systems hire experience; or controls experience.
Pay
Up to $15K relocation bonus
Tools
Python, scopes, logic analyzers, telemetry, logs, FMEA, FRACAS
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