Staff Systems Engineer - Autonomy Behavior (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States

Salary: $189,300–$290,700 per year, plus bonus potential

Company

hirify.global develops automotive products and autonomous vehicle technologies with a vision of zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion.

What you will do

• Set the systems engineering approach for autonomous behavior validation from product requirements through release and continuous monitoring.
• Define behavior decomposition, metrics, acceptance criteria, coverage, confidence, and traceability.
• Lead validation strategies connecting safety claims, legal and compliance expectations, hazard analysis, simulation tests, and release evidence.
• Guide large-scale evaluation across synthetic tests, road data, and counterfactual references, including scenario sourcing, sampling, orchestration, data quality, and reproducibility.
• Lead cross-functional technical reviews and guide validation tools, data pipelines, simulation workflows, and analysis products toward repeatable systems.
• Turn complex validation results into clear recommendations for safety and launch decisions.

Requirements

• Master's degree in systems engineering, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, robotics, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in systems engineering, autonomous vehicles, robotics, vehicle development, simulation, or safety-critical validation.
• Proven experience evaluating autonomous vehicles for a commercial fleet, launch, supervised release, or another high-consequence product decision.
• Strong systems engineering fundamentals covering architecture, use-case and scene modeling, requirements, interfaces, verification and validation planning, and traceability.
• Experience defining or leading simulation evaluation at scale and balancing coverage, confidence, runtime, cost, and simulation validity.
• Strong Python skills, communication abilities, stakeholder management, and technical leadership across organizational boundaries.

Nice to have

• Experience with human benchmarking, counterfactual simulation analysis, safety cases, safety claims, and structured safety methods such as STPA, FMEA, and fault trees.
• Experience with risk quantification, risk acceptance, risk budgets, compliance strategies, validation lifecycles, and validation scorecards.
• Experience automating expert review while preserving expert judgment and developing other engineers or technical communities.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, and Flexible Spending Account options.
• Retirement savings plan, life insurance, sickness and accident benefits, paid vacation, and paid holidays.
• Tuition assistance, employee assistance programs, and GM vehicle discounts.
• Incentive compensation based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
• Inclusive workplace focused on belonging, meaningful change, and developing safer products.

Hiring process

• Role-related assessments and pre-employment screening may be required where applicable.