Senior HW Systems Engineer

The role

This senior role turns product guidance into use cases, functional requirements and system architectures for hardware development. You will author and maintain systems engineering artifacts and work with stakeholders and domain engineers through the product development lifecycle.

What you will do

• Decompose product guidance into use cases and functional requirements.
• Own architectures and requirements sets for assigned system-level areas within Hardware Development.
• Work with stakeholders and domain engineers from product guidance to design across the product development lifecycle.
• Author and maintain systems engineering artifacts for Hardware Development.
• Unblock multidisciplinary teams and drive successful delivery of quality hardware.
• Use data and engineering experience to qualify work products and reach designs that fit organizational goals.
• Foster a culture of collaboration and learning within and between groups.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics or a related field, with at least 4 years of experience, or equivalent experience and advanc
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to drive architecture and trade decisions in multi-domain engineering environments.
• Experience designing, implementing and testing complex hardware and software systems in requirements-driven industries such as aerospace, autonomous systems or large-scale computing infrastructure.
• Experience building non-functional and quality attributes such as safety and security into system design.
• Expertise with systems engineering analysis methods and artifacts such as Activity Diagrams, Functional Decompositions, FMEAs and test plans.
• Good technical risk sensitivity to make decisions with limited input and information.
• Passion for self-driving technologies, solving hard problems and creating innovative solutions.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with decomposing industry standards into atomic, testable requirements.
• Experience with hardware safety standards such as ISO 26262 or related standards.
• Experience with model-based systems engineering methodologies and tools such as Jama or Polarion.
• Experience with requirements management database systems and requirements management processes.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity awards.
• Medical, dental and vision coverage.
• Paid parental, medical and family care leave.
• Generous PTO policy.
• 401(k) or RRSP retirement savings options.
• Health savings account contribution options.
• Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals when in office.
• Regularly scheduled team building activities and social events on-site, off-site and virtually.
• Additional benefits tailored to specific country locations.

Before you apply

• Waabi is an equal opportunity employer and makes accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities on request.

About the company

Waabi, founded by Raquel Urtasun, builds Physical AI technology for commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis. The company is a technology start-up backed by partners in AI, automotive, logistics and deep tech.