- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle · Defense
- Location
- ClarksburgMarylandUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Aug 4, 2026
Full-time
Staff Systems Engineer
Job description
The Systems Engineer is the systems engineering authority for the Autonomous Yard Truck program. The role owns the integrity of requirements, functional architecture, traceability, and technical change impact activities across product, autonomy, drive-by-wire, vehicle, safety, software, hardware, integration, and test teams. This engineer ensures product intent is translated into implementable and verifiable system behavior while helping mature the organization's systems engineering practices and AI-enabled tooling.
Job responsibilities
- Own the capture, structure, review, quality, and maintenance of Product, System of Systems (SoS), and System requirements in Jama Connect.
- Maintain end-to-end traceability so System requirements trace to SoS requirements, SoS requirements trace to Product requirements, and every System requirement has a justified path to the Product need it supports.
- Ensure Product requirements link to validation scenarios and SoS/System requirements link to verification test cases; regularly resolve missing, incorrect, duplicate, or unjustified requirements and relationships.
- Develop and maintain the Yard Truck SoS functional architecture and use it to derive, organize, map, and allocate requirements across autonomy, the Drive-by-Wire Kit, vehicle systems, operator interfaces, remote…
- Ensure the architecture supports safety analyses, including Functional Hazard Analysis for autonomy and ISO 26262 Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment activities for the Drive-by-Wire Kit.
- Coordinate closely with the Yard Truck Safety team so hazards, safety goals, mitigations, safety concepts, and safety-derived requirements are reflected in the architecture, Jama baseline, and verification approach.
- Work with systems engineers and development subject-matter experts to allocate and trace System requirements to the software, hardware, controls, interfaces, and vehicle elements responsible for Number of headcount you…
- Confirm that product features are fully decomposed into implementable system behavior and represented in development, integration, verification, and validation activities.
Job requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical discipline.
- Seven or more years of systems engineering experience supporting complex cyber-physical systems integrating software, hardware, sensing, controls, communications, and physical equipment.
- Demonstrated experience with requirements development, decomposition, allocation, configuration management, and bidirectional traceability across multiple levels of a system hierarchy.
- Experience developing or maintaining functional architectures and using them for interface management, implementation allocation, safety analysis, and verification planning.
- Experience coordinating across software, hardware, controls, safety, integration, product, and test organizations to resolve technical issues and assess engineering changes.
- Experience with Jama Connect, IBM DOORS, Polarion, or a comparable requirements platform, along with strong technical leadership, facilitation, writing, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Systems engineering experience in autonomous vehicles, advanced driver-assistance systems, robotics, automated industrial equipment, or intelligent transportation.
- Experience with autonomy functions such as perception, localization, behavior planning, vehicle control, teleoperation, remote operations, or Drive-by-Wire systems.
