Systems Engineer (Robotaxi)

Location: Sunnyvale, California, USA; hybrid work with time in offices and workshops and time working from home

Salary: $209,700–$311,400 per year, plus a competitive equity package

Company

hirify.global develops driver-out Robotaxi systems integrating AI driving technology, vehicle platforms, sensors, compute, safety mechanisms, remote assistance, fleet services, and cloud operations.

What you will do

• Own systems engineering for defined parts of the Robotaxi architecture, including vehicle and ADS interfaces, remote-assistance boundaries, and fleet or cloud integration.
• Translate use cases, operational concepts, and constraints into system requirements, interfaces, assumptions, trade studies, and verification-ready specifications.
• Work directly with OEM, Tier1, and Robotaxi operator partners to define system and product boundaries and lead technical working sessions.
• Apply the reference architecture to vehicle programs covering sensors, compute, ECU topology, vehicle interfaces, and degraded-operation behavior.
• Support implementation through architecture reviews, bring-up planning, issue triage, debugging, and design-change impact analysis.
• Escalate cross-domain and cross-program trade-offs to the lead Robotaxi System Architect and relevant domain owners.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience designing, integrating, or deploying a Robotaxi or production-intent L4 driver-out autonomous system.
• Systems engineering experience across vehicle platforms, sensors, compute, embedded software, ADS, safety mechanisms, remote assistance, fleet or cloud systems, and operations.
• Experience converting use cases and operational concepts into functional decomposition, requirements, interfaces, assumptions, trade studies, and verification intent.
• Experience defining system and product boundaries across multiple organizations, such as autonomy developers, OEMs, Tier1s, operators, or technology partners.
• Practical vehicle or robotic-system integration experience, including architecture reviews, bring-up, issue triage, debugging, and design-change impact analysis.
• Working knowledge of driver-out safety concepts including redundancy, degraded operation, Minimum Risk Manoeuvre, fail-operational behavior, functional safety, SOTIF, and safety-case evidence.

Nice to have

• Robotaxi launch readiness, fleet operations, remote assistance, teleoperation interfaces, depot operations, rider systems, or operational monitoring.
• Production automotive E/E architecture, CAN, Automotive Ethernet, SOME/IP, AUTOSAR, DDS, QNX, Linux, diagnostics, time synchronization, or data logging.
• Sensor and compute architecture involving cameras, radar, LiDAR, IMU/GNSS, calibration, timestamping, primary or secondary compute, and redundancy.
• Requirements and architecture tooling such as Jama, MBSE/SysML, interface-control documents, decision records, and traceability systems.
• Experience applying one reference architecture across multiple vehicle platforms, OEMs, or deployment models, plus familiarity with AI/ML-based driving systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working combines time in offices and workshops with time working from home.
• Office and workshop collaboration supports innovation, relationships, learning, and technical development.
• Full-time employment includes a competitive equity package.