- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle · Defense
- Location
- ClarksburgMarylandUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Aug 3, 2026
Full-time
Vehicle Controls Systems Architect
Job description
The Vehicle Controls team is looking for a Systems Architect to take ownership of systems architecture, requirements, and integration/test work on our vehicle platforms. This is a true cross-disciplinary systems engineering role: you'll need enough depth in mechanical, electrical, and software engineering to hold your own in a technical conversation with specialists in any of those areas, while spending most of your time on the vehicle — integrating commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) actuation and sensing systems, and designing custom solutions when nothing commercially available fits the need.
Job requirements
- Own high systems architecture for vehicle subsystems, defining how mechanical, electrical, and software components interact.
- Work with internal and external customers to understand requirements and tradeoffs for overall system design decisions.
- Collaborate with hardware and software leads to mature and develop detailed hardware and software architectures.
- Write, maintain, and trace system and subsystem requirements through integration and test.
- Author and maintain Interface Control Documents (ICDs), Interface description documents, and other systems engineering artifacts to support development and safety analysis.
- 6+ years of hands-on systems integration and test engineering experience (exceptional candidates with 1–2 years of directly relevant experience will also be considered).
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field — or equivalent hands-on experience.
- Demonstrated ability to work across mechanical, electrical, and software disciplines and communicate credibly with specialists in each.