Head of Systems Engineering (Sr. Director)

Location: Mountain View, California (HQ)

Salary: $283,640–$425,960 base pay annually, plus annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology and a universal autonomy platform for robotaxis, logistics fleets, personal vehicles, and other mobility applications.

What you will do

• Own and scale the Systems Engineering function across autonomy, hardware, safety cases, requirements, validation, system performance, technical risk, and deployment readiness.
• Define systems engineering strategies for multiple vehicle platforms, commercial applications, cities, partnerships, and future international markets.
• Translate product, safety, commercial, and deployment goals into system requirements, performance targets, validation plans, and launch-readiness frameworks.
• Own requirements architecture, system decomposition, and interface management across autonomy software, sensing, compute, vehicle software and hardware, and safety.
• Lead safety cases, technical analyses, trade studies, risk reviews, readiness reviews, and launch decision-making with cross-functional partners.
• Build, develop, and retain a high-caliber Systems Engineering organization.

Requirements

• 10+ years of systems engineering experience in automotive, aerospace, defense, robotics, medical devices, or another safety-critical field.
• 7+ years managing managers and scaling high-performing engineering organizations.
• Experience leading systems engineering or equivalent technical functions for complex hardware and software products, including safety cases, hazard analysis, risk assessment, validation evidence, and deployment readiness.
• Experience with autonomy stacks including perception, prediction, planning, localization, mapping, sensing, compute, and vehicle integration.
• Experience with vehicle platforms, embedded systems, automotive-grade hardware, compute systems, sensor integration, or hardware/software co-design.
• Experience building verification and validation strategies for public-road or regulated environments, including simulation, scenario-based testing, closed-course validation, and operational readiness reviews.

Culture & Benefits

• Technical leadership role focused on scaling autonomous driving technology into a durable commercial product.
• Opportunity to work across engineering, safety, product, legal, and operations functions.
• Annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.
• Commitment to an inclusive workplace and psychological safety.