Senior Systems Engineer, Platform Requirements and Interfaces

About Atoms

Atoms is building the machines that power the next era of progress.

Over the last decade, software has transformed the digital world. But the physical world, where food is made, minerals are mined, goods are moved, and industries are run, remains far less intelligent, far less efficient, and far more constrained. Atoms is changing that.

Atoms builds Physical AI: real-world robots for the industries that move civilization forward, starting with food, mining, and transport. Their systems are designed to understand, predict, and control the real world with precision, turning complex physical operations into something more reliable, more scalable, and more productive.

This work requires deep integration across hardware, software, AI, operations, manufacturing, and real estate. Atoms does not just build machines in a lab. They deploy them into real environments, operate them, learn from them, and improve them until they work at scale.

The Opportunity

Atoms is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to own the system requirements and interface control documents for autonomous vehicle and truck platforms. You will take a platform from platform-level requirements through decomposed and allocated subsystem requirements to a verification plan with results confirmed against each requirement, working out how the autonomy kit's sensing, compute, networks, and power meet the vehicle or machine it is installed on.

You will do this across OEM vehicle platforms and off-highway trucks, and you will build the requirements and interface documentation that each new platform variant is specified and verified against.

What You'll Do

- Write and maintain system and subsystem requirements for the vehicle and truck platforms you own, including decomposition from platform-level requirements, allocation to sensing, compute, vehicle networks, power, actuation, and autonomy software, and traceability to verification

- Build and maintain interface control documents between the autonomy kit and each vehicle or truck platform, and between subsystems within the kit, covering signals, networks, power, timing, mounting, and data; run the review and change process for the interfaces you own

- Run the requirements management toolchain: structure, attributes, baselines, change tracking, and traceability from requirement to design to verification evidence

- Write the verification plan for the requirements you own, including method, test environment across analysis, bench, simulation, closed course, and on-vehicle test, acceptance criteria, and evidence; work with test teams on execution and confirm results against requirements

- Produce requirements deltas and interface control documents for each new vehicle or truck platform and each new sensor or compute generation, keeping requirements that are common across platforms common

- Support integration and bring-up on the vehicle or machine; classify failures found in integration, test, or the field as requirement, interface, or implementation defects, and feed changes back into requirements and interfaces

- Work with vehicle integration and hardware engineering on physical and electrical interfaces, with autonomy and robotics on software interfaces and data, with functional safety on safety requirements, and with bench and hardware-in-the-loop engineering on verification environments

You Should Have

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Systems Engineering, or a related field, with 5+ years of systems engineering experience

- Experience authoring system requirements for a vehicle, robotics, or comparable hardware and software system, including decomposition to subsystems, allocation, and traceability to verification

- Experience writing and maintaining interface control documents, or equivalent interface specifications, between hardware and software subsystems

- Working experience with a requirements management tool such as Jama, DOORS, or Polarion, including configuring its structure, attributes, and traceability

- Experience writing verification plans and acceptance criteria and confirming test results against requirements

- Working knowledge of vehicle networks and interfaces, including CAN, CAN FD, and Automotive Ethernet, and of sensor and compute interfaces and time synchronization

- Experience on an autonomous vehicle or robotics platform

- Experience handling autonomous driving or robotics sensor data across multiple modalities and timestamps, including camera, LiDAR, and radar

- Proficiency in Python for data analysis, test automation, and tooling, and the ability to read C++

- Strong written practice covering system requirements, interface specifications, and verification reports, including the limits of a result

- Ability to work onsite five days a week in San Francisco

Compensation and Benefits

Base Salary: $176,000 – $241,000 annually

In addition to base salary, you may be eligible for equity awards. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance; FSA/HSA options; 401(k); unlimited flexible time off and paid holidays; paid parental leave; and a pre-tax commuter benefit plan.