Senior​/System Engineer

Who we are

Gatik, the leader in autonomous middle-mile logistics, is revolutionizing the B2B supply chain with its autonomous transportation-as-a-service (ATaaS) solution and prioritizing safe, consistent deliveries while streamlining freight movement by reducing congestion. The company focuses on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 retailers and in 2021 launched the world’s first fully driverless commercial transportation service with Walmart. Gatik's Class 3-7 autonomous trucks are commercially deployed across major markets, including Texas, Arkansas, and Ontario, Canada, driving innovation in freight transportation.

The company's proprietary Level 4 autonomous technology, Gatik Carrier™, is custom-built to transport freight safely and efficiently between pick-up and drop-off locations on the middle mile. With robust capabilities in both highway and urban environments, Gatik Carrier™ serves as an all-encompassing solution that integrates advanced software and hardware powering the fleet, facilitating effortless integration into customers' logistics operations.

Gatik is hiring a Sr./Staff Systems Engineer to oversee Verification and Validation of Gatik’s autonomous vehicles.

This role will be onsite in Mountain View, CA headquarters (preferred) with potential opportunities in Fort Worth, TX.

• Establish model-based system engineering (MBSE) and methodologies for requirements management. Allocate functional and performance requirements, making sure they cascade down to the various stakeholders and abstraction levels of the system.
• Provide comprehensive advance systems expertise in integrating and bringing architecture changes and component revisions, thus ensuring that new configurations work as expected
• Responsible for writing test cases and executing systems integration tests at different abstraction levels of the system such as Hardware in Loop (HiL), Vehicle in Loop (ViL)
• Manage requirements across the V-cycle establishing traceability with product, design, performance, implementation, hardware, software, and verification & validation teams
• Collaborate with internal hardware and software teams and external vendors to ensure requirements are consistently met and the desired functionality achieved
• Hands‑on vehicle bring up of in-house high compute ECUs and full autonomy sensor suite for data collection and logging
• Build, implement, and run test benches with proprietary or industry-standard tools to evaluate, document and identify problems with hardware-software integration
• Identify and work with key cross-functional partners to root cause and provide resolution, drive debugging of the HW/SW issues to closure.
• Implement systems engineering processes cross‑functionally with other teams including review & support of requirements, and evaluate architecture robustness
• Inform system design decisions across hardware, software and other functional blocks of the AV systems according to established industry standards and best practices
• Triage system software bugs & defects and investigate perceived issues, escalating when appropriate and driving to resolution
• Update and suggest changes to upstream processes and/or code after root cause investigation in collaboration with domain SMEs
• Establish and take ownership of end‑to‑end automation of manual tests and come up with clear KPIs, metrics and quality benchmarks to support statistical validation
• Work closely with software developers, systems engineers, and other internal and/or external stakeholders to ensure that design and implementation are in sync
• Work across internal teams and engineering vendors to ensure timely delivery of exceptional quality work products

• 5+ years experience writing and managing requirements for complex systems with a hardware and software aspect
• Experience with requirements management and (model based) systems engineering tools such as Jama, SysML, ANSYS Medini, DOORS, etc.
• Deep technical experience with complex, safety‑critical systems following SE best practices
• Hands‑on experience with latest AV technologies and debugging complex systems that involve sensors, compute, networking, etc. that…