Senior Systems Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Richmond, California; on-site 3–4 days per week preferred, with remote work considered for the right candidate. Hands-on work at the test track and project sites is required.

Salary: $150,000–$190,000 USD plus stock options, commensurate with experience.

Company

hirify.global develops a carbon-neutral automated public transit network using standardized autonomous vehicles on dedicated roadways.

What you will do

• Own the integration and on-track landing of new GATN capabilities, including safety behaviors, dispatch functions, ticketing flows, and availability improvements.
• Design and execute Tier 2+ integration scenarios across vehicles, wayside systems, and dispatch or operations control systems.
• Improve regression and mileage-accumulation test suites, including test coverage, sequencing, and release-gating criteria.
• Review logs, metrics, and track behavior to assess safety-function health and recommend parameter or design changes.
• Coordinate release readiness, multi-vehicle integration, and testing across project sites and customer locations.
• Lead technical triage, root-cause analysis, requirements translation, and improvements to integration tooling and test infrastructure.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field.
• 4+ years of experience in a relevant industry and at least 1 year in systems integration and test, system test, or verification and validation for complex hardware/software systems.
• Experience planning and executing systems-level test campaigns, including scenario design, success criteria, and analysis.
• Strong root-cause analysis skills across software and hardware interfaces, with comfort working hands-on at a test track.
• Ability to collaborate across autonomy, embedded, systems, operations, and product teams and drive alignment without direct authority.
• Experience with shipped products and disciplined systems thinking, including requirements traceability and verification planning.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in systems, mechanical, electrical, or software engineering.
• Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, transit systems, or complex integrated hardware/software products.
• Familiarity with HIL, SIL, simulation frameworks, Jama, SysML, or DOORS.
• Experience delivering safety-critical products and exposure to safety, reliability, operational envelope, availability, or RAMS topics.

Culture & Benefits

• Work across autonomy, vehicle hardware, safety, infrastructure, operations, and product engineering.
• Hands-on involvement with test tracks, project sites, logs, dashboards, and system integration tools.
• Stock options are included in the compensation package.
• Equal employment opportunity and protection from discrimination and harassment are provided.