Systems Engineering Manager
Palo Alto$200k - $250kFull-timePosted 7mo ago
About the role
Lead requirements and feature development for a cross-functional micromobility vehicle platform, ensuring systems-level alignment from concept to validation and serving as the primary technical interface between customers and ALSO leadership.
Responsibilities
- Drive architecture and requirements development for a cross-functional micromobility vehicle platform program (Electrical Engineering, Firmware, Product Design) from a systems engineering perspective, ensuring alignment from concept through validation
- Serve as the primary technical interface between customers and ALSO leadership to capture product intent and translate it into clear system artifacts, including user stories, CONOPS, and use cases
- Define and manage requirements at the system, subsystem, and hardware module levels, collaborating closely with internal stakeholders across low-voltage electronics, battery and energy storage systems, drivetrain and actuators, connectivity and telematics, HMI, and sensor systems
- Ensure end-to-end traceability across user stories, features, system requirements, subsystem requirements, and verification/validation test cases
- Develop and maintain system architectures for distributed embedded controllers, including interface definitions and communication protocols, functional decomposition and allocation, and fault detection, handling, and system-level robustness
- Collaborate closely with software engineers, electrical engineers, product designers, product managers, and UI/UX teams to drive CONOPS, activity diagrams, feature design, development, and validation
- Develop state machines, such as power states for the platform
- Support end-to-end feature validation, contributing to the definition and execution of test cases and test plans across bench and HIL testing, vehicle-level bring-up, and system integration and performance validation
Qualifications
- BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related field
- 8+ years of professional experience in systems engineering or embedded software development
- Understanding of Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
- Experience working with embedded systems
- Extensive knowledge of automotive communication protocols (CAN, CAN FD, SPI)
- Requirements management tools such as JAMA, or Polarion and using model based systems engineering
Skills
Required:Systems engineeringRTOSEmbedded systemsAutomotive protocolsRequirements management tools
Benefits
- Robust health coverage — excellent health, dental and vision insurance covered up to 100% by ALSO with FSA & HSA options
- One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates
- Rich fertility and family building benefits with Progyny
- Flexible time off
- 401(k) match
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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