Staff Systems Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Clarksburg, MD, United States

Salary: $150,000–$190,000 per year, plus equity for most full-time high-demand roles

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous networks, vehicles, sensors, and battlefield systems designed to improve operational safety, resilience, and responsiveness.

What you will do

• Own the capture, quality, maintenance, and bidirectional traceability of Product, System of Systems, and System requirements in Jama Connect.
• Develop and maintain the autonomous yard truck functional architecture across autonomy, drive-by-wire, vehicle systems, operator interfaces, remote operations, and supporting systems.
• Integrate functional safety analysis, including Functional Hazard Analysis and ISO 26262 Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment, into architecture, requirements, and verification planning.
• Allocate requirements to software, hardware, controls, interfaces, and vehicle elements, and assess gaps, defects, ambiguities, and engineering-change impacts.
• Help mature systems engineering processes and evaluate AI-assisted requirements, architecture, traceability, review, and change-impact tooling.
• Lead cross-functional technical reviews and mentor systems engineers across product, autonomy, software, hardware, safety, integration, test, vehicle, and operations teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical discipline.
• Seven or more years of systems engineering experience with complex cyber-physical systems integrating software, hardware, sensing, controls, communications, and physical equipment.
• Experience with requirements development, decomposition, allocation, configuration management, and bidirectional traceability across multiple system levels.
• Experience developing functional architectures for interface management, implementation allocation, safety analysis, and verification planning.
• Experience coordinating software, hardware, controls, safety, integration, product, and test organizations to resolve technical issues and assess changes.
• Experience with Jama Connect, IBM DOORS, Polarion, or a comparable requirements platform, together with strong technical leadership, facilitation, writing, and stakeholder-management skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with autonomous vehicles, advanced driver-assistance systems, robotics, automated industrial equipment, or intelligent transportation.
• Experience with perception, localization, behavior planning, vehicle control, teleoperation, remote operations, or drive-by-wire systems.
• Experience with Functional Hazard Analysis, ISO 26262 HARA, functional safety concepts, or safety-derived requirements.
• Experience with model-based systems engineering tools or AI-assisted engineering workflow governance.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time benefits include three premium healthcare plan options, with hirify.global covering 80% of employee and dependent premiums.
• Company-paid basic life, AD&D, short-term, and long-term disability insurance.
• Twenty days of accrued PTO, a generous holiday calendar with a December winter break, and at least seven weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• $9,000 annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend.
• 401(k) plan with traditional, Roth, and after-tax deferral options and company matching up to 4%.
• The position may require eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Hiring process

• Recruiters provide additional information about compensation and benefits during the hiring process.