Systems Engineering Manager - Autonomy Behavior (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Hybrid in Sunnyvale, California; in-office attendance is required at least three times per week or at another frequency set by the business.

Salary: $189,300–$290,000 annual base salary, plus potential incentive compensation.

Company

hirify.global develops automotive products and autonomous vehicle technologies focused on safer, more equitable transportation.

What you will do

• Lead and develop a team of autonomy behavior systems engineers, setting standards for technical quality, execution, communication, and growth.
• Set systems engineering and validation direction for major capabilities and cross-cutting behaviors.
• Connect requirements, coverage, simulation validity, metrics, acceptance criteria, and release evidence.
• Guide scalable behavior evaluation and simulation across synthetic tests, road data, and counterfactual references.
• Coordinate scenario sourcing, orchestration, data quality, and reproducibility.
• Partner with Engineering, Safety, Legal, Product, and Operations on engineering, release, 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 professional experience in systems engineering, autonomous vehicles, robotics, vehicle development, simulation, or safety-critical validation.
• Experience evaluating autonomous vehicles for a commercial fleet, launch, supervised release, or another high-consequence product decision.
• Strong systems engineering fundamentals, including architecture and decomposition, scene modeling, requirements strategy, interface definition, verification and validation planning, and traceability.
• Experience leading simulation evaluation at scale and assessing coverage, confidence, runtime, cost, and simulation validity.
• Strong Python, communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills, plus experience as a technical lead or people manager.

Nice to have

• Experience with human benchmarking, hazard analysis, safety cases, risk quantification, and risk acceptance.
• Experience translating legal or regulatory expectations into compliance strategies with requirements, metrics, test coverage, and documented claims.
• Experience designing validation lifecycles from scope definition and test generation through release decisions and continuous monitoring.
• Experience hiring, organizing, and prioritizing technical teams through changing product and program needs.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, accountable environment focused on employee belonging and professional growth.
• Potential incentive compensation based on company, job-level, and individual performance.
• Eligibility for a company vehicle evaluation program after a successful motor vehicle report review.
• The role may be eligible for relocation benefits.
• Employee total rewards and benefits are available from the first day.