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Humble Robotics
Humble Robotics

Staff Hardware Systems Engineer (Vehicle Architect)

San Francisco, California, U.S.
Full-Time
On-site

TLDR

Own autonomous vehicle requirements and architecture across compute, networking, sensors, telematics, and power distribution, driving end-to-end validation.

About Humble Robotics

Working at Humble Robotics means taking on the biggest change in ground transportation in decades. We’re building an autonomous, zero-emissions hauler that dramatically lowers the cost of freight with groundbreaking vision-based AI, designed for today’s global logistics network. 

We’re a fast-moving, close-knit team of AV industry veterans and innovative thinkers. We don’t believe culture can be engineered – but when it falls into place, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime adventure.

Progress has never felt so present.

Position Overview

Lead systems engineering across our autonomous vehicle platform. Own system-level requirements and architecture, and make the technical decisions that cross compute, networking, sensors, telematics, and power distribution. Translate product and safety goals into clear, testable requirements, and drive the design reviews and validation that prove them out end-to-end. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you set the direction and stay in the details.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own systems engineering across the product.
  • Architect the vehicle subsystems while evaluating cross-domain trade-offs.
  • Decompose vehicle-level requirements down to subsystem and component level across compute, networking, sensors, telematics, power distribution, and articulate the rationale behind each.
  • Partner with Mechanical Engineers to align on mechanical requirements - durability, vehicle dynamics, enclosures, sealing, etc.
  • Support system performance analysis, deviation analysis, structured testing, debugging, and system improvements.
  • Run cross-functional design reviews and orchestrate verification and validation of requirements with HW, SW/Autonomy, Functional Safety, and Test teams.
  • Partner with Functional Safety on HARA, safety goals, and ASIL-driven technical safety requirement decomposition; ensure traceability from item definition to test.
  • Interface with SW/Autonomy on interfaces, timing, compute, and networking budgets; own the system-of-systems view and arbitrate trade-offs across domains.
  • Lead root-cause analysis for cross-domain issues surfaced in bring-up, DV, or on-vehicle; feed learnings back into requirements and architecture.

    • Minimum Qualifications

  • BS in Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, or Computer Engineering
  • 8+ years of systems engineering on vehicles or robots.
  • Owned vehicle-level E/E architecture (power distribution, in-vehicle networks, compute) on a program that reached DV, PV, SOP or fleet deployment.
  • Technical lead for systems engineers who built to your requirements and decisions.
  • Wrote testable requirements and ran requirement-based V&V across HW, SW and test teams.
  • Did practical ISO 26262 work: HARA, safety goals, ASIL decomposition.

    • Preferred Qualifications

  • Prior experience at an AV, robotaxi, autonomous trucking, or ADAS program at OEM/Tier-1.
  • Built or grew a systems engineering team at an early-stage company.
  • Track record of selecting, deploying, or replacing requirements management tooling.
  • Exposure to HIL/SIL strategy and the instrumentation needed for on-vehicle verification.
  • Experience working directly with powertrain, chassis, and/or HV traction systems on production vehicles.
  • Heavy-duty truck or articulated vehicle experience.

    • Compensation

    Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including qualifications, skills, experience, and location. We also offer competitive equity compensation and benefits.

    As part of the interview process, we may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to compare your qualifications and experience to the job description. A human reviews all AI output and makes a final hiring decision. Humble Robotics does not rely on the output to make any employment decisions. Some applicants may have a legal right to opt-out of the use of AI as part of our interview process. Contact legal@humblerobotics.ai to exercise this right or if you have further questions on the use of AI tools in our hiring process. 

    Humble Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law. Humble Robotics will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with local ordinances.

    Benefits

    Equity Compensation

    competitive equity compensation

    Benefits

    Humble Robotics
    Humble Robotics

    Humble Robotics is creating an autonomous, zero-emissions hauler that transforms global logistics through vision-based AI technology. Targeting the logistics industry, our innovative approach is set to redefine freight transportation while driving down costs.

    Employees
    11-50 employees
    Funding stage
    Seed
    Total raised
    $24M raised
    Last funding
    Raised April 2026
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