Systems Engineering Manager - Autonomy Behavior

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of autonomy behavior systems engineers, setting expectations for technical quality, execution, communication, and growth.
• Set the systems engineering and validation direction for major capabilities and cross-cutting behaviors, connecting requirements, coverage, simulation validity, metrics, acceptance criteria, and release evidence.
• Guide the development of scalable behavior evaluation and simulation systems across synthetic tests, road data, and counterfactual references, including scenario sourcing, orchestration, data quality, and…
• Partner across Engineering, Safety, Legal, Product, and Operations to resolve ambiguity, build alignment, and communicate clear recommendations for engineering, release, and launch decisions.

Job requirements

• Master’s degree in systems engineering, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, robotics, or a related field.
• 8 or more years of professional experience in systems engineering, autonomous vehicles, robotics, vehicle development, simulation, or safety-critical validation.
• A proven record of evaluating autonomous vehicles for a commercial fleet, launch, supervised release, or other high-consequence product decision.
• Deep systems engineering fundamentals, including architecture and decomposition, use-case and scene modeling, requirements strategy, interface definition, verification and validation planning, and traceability.
• Professional experience defining or leading simulation evaluation at scale, including the trade-offs between coverage, confidence, runtime, cost, and simulation validity.
• Strong Python experience. You should be comfortable reviewing production-quality analysis or validation software and understanding how tools and data pipelines support engineering decisions.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to create alignment among teams with different goals, terminology, and technical perspectives.
• Demonstrated stakeholder management and technical leadership across organizational boundaries. You have led work through influence, not only through formal authority.