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Senior Systems Engineer

Blacksburg, VA

JOB DESCRIPTION: Torc Robotics, Inc. seeks a Senior Systems Engineer based out of our U.S. headquarters at 405 Partnership Dr, Blacksburg, VA 24060. However, this is a purely telecommuting/work-from-home position whereby the employee may reside anywhere within the U.S. Note, domestic and international travel is required, up to 20% per year. 

Job duties: Evaluate full system performance, understanding the contributions of relevant sub-systems, providing feedback to development teams. Derive product requirements from external stakeholders, regulatory bodies, liability review and societal expectations. Support integration of new and existing selfdriving software onto vehicles and test benches. Assist with troubleshooting of component and system integration issues, guiding the team to an efficient resolution. Develop and execute test plans, performing closed course and on-road evaluation of updates prior to deployment to extended testing groups. Evaluate full system performance, understanding the contributions of relevant sub-systems, providing feedback to development teams. Leverage results from automated software testing pipeline to increase the efficiency of the system integration release process. Maintain a rapid integration and deployment schedule for self-driving software stack with consistent releases to extended testing teams. Perform first tier analysis of extended testing data to provide insight into system performance to the rest of the organization. Manage system issues from identification through resolution. Create requirements for new tools or automation to increase overall testing capabilities. Track and report system performance KPIs on a regular basis. Provide integration issue resolution support to other testing teams. Passionate about self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world. Responsible for triage road failures, using triage results to understand & document the test gaps. Support tracking and reporting testing Key Performance Measures (KPIs) on regular basis. Exhaustively document best practices. Derive product requirements from external stakeholders, regulatory bodies, liability review and societal expectations. Research and interpret data, define functional design requirements and architecture for the TORC Virtual Driver and related systems in the Autonomous Ecosystem. Ensure security, performance, manageability, quality, and consistency of the product requirement specification across the systems and provide technical guidance to development teams. Lead design discussions regarding technical details of cross organization, spanning across hardware, software, functional safety, validation, and operations considerations. Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform. Support development of system requirement specification including description of the dynamic driving task, functional flow block diagrams, requirement derivation and allocation to components based on the ASIL designation. Maintain traceability between different levels of requirements as well as mapping to verification tests throughout the product life cycle including planned iteration and requirement modifications under consideration of system design and requirements engineering best practices. Collaborate closely with functional safety engineering teams to ensure the design process is aligned with safety requirement definitions with respect to safety goals, industry best practices as defined in ISO 26262 (FuSa), ISO 21448 (SOTIF), and other emerging standards. Collaborate closely with architecture engineering teams to ensure the design process is aligned with the system/hardware and software architecture.

Requirements: Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field and 3 years of experience in job offered or related.

Alternatively, employer will accept a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field and 5 years of experience in job offered or related.

Must have experience with: Robot Operating System (ROS)and Designing and commissioning custom HIL test fixtures and experience with dSPACE, National Instruments; System integration, track and public roads Level 4 autonomy self-driving testing; JAMA for test and requirements management; Fault injection & Minimal Risk Condition Failover testing; testing the drive by wire system and vehicle interface controller at multiple modalities; and developing processes for issue resolution, identification, triaging, management, root cause analysis, risk mitigation.

Offered Salary: $184,500/year.

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