Staff Software Systems Engineer (Autonomy Behavior)

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States

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

Company

hirify.global develops automotive products and autonomous driving technologies with a focus on safer, more sustainable, and equitable mobility.

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, traceability, and validation evidence.
• Lead validation strategies connecting safety claims, legal and compliance expectations, hazard analysis, simulation tests, and release decisions.
• Set the direction for large-scale evaluation across synthetic tests, road data, and counterfactual references, including scenario sourcing, 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.
• At least 8 years of professional experience in systems engineering, autonomous vehicles, robotics, vehicle development, simulation, or safety-critical validation.
• Proven experience evaluating autonomous vehicles for a self-driving fleet, launch, supervised release, or another high-consequence product decision.
• Strong systems engineering fundamentals, including architecture, use-case and scene modeling, requirements strategy, interface definition, verification and validation planning, and traceability.
• Professional experience leading simulation evaluation at scale and balancing coverage, confidence, runtime, cost, and simulation validity.
• Strong Python skills, communication abilities, stakeholder management experience, and a record of leading through influence across organizational boundaries.

Nice to have

• Experience with human benchmarking, counterfactual simulation analysis, safety cases, safety claims, hazard analysis, STPA, FMEA, fault trees, or scenario-based hazard analysis.
• Experience with risk quantification, risk acceptance, severity and exposure reasoning, risk budgets, and mitigation decisions.
• Experience translating legal or regulatory expectations into compliance strategies with requirements, metrics, test coverage, and documented claims.
• Experience designing validation lifecycles, scorecards, confidence rubrics, behavior protocols, or reusable validation products.
• Experience automating manual expert review while preserving expert judgment and developing other engineers or technical communities.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance options.
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Retirement savings plan, life insurance, and sickness and accident benefits.
• Paid vacation and holidays, tuition assistance, and an employee assistance program.
• GM vehicle discounts and performance-based incentive compensation.
• Inclusive workplace focused on belonging, professional development, and safer mobility.