Head of Systems Engineering (Senior Director)
Mountain View, CA$283.6k - $426kfull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Senior technical leadership role owning the end-to-end Systems Engineering function for Nuro Driver, spanning autonomy, hardware, safety case, requirements, validation, system performance, and deployment readiness to scale autonomous driving technology across platforms and geographies.
Responsibilities
- Own and scale Nuro’s Systems Engineering function across autonomy, hardware, safety case, requirements, validation, system performance, technical risk, and deployment readiness.
- Define the systems engineering strategy to support growth across multiple cities, vehicle platforms, commercial partnerships, and future international markets.
- Translate product goals, safety goals, commercial use cases, and deployment milestones into system requirements, measurable performance targets, validation plans, and launch readiness frameworks.
- Own the requirements architecture, system decomposition, and interface management for the Nuro Driver across autonomy software, sensing, compute, vehicle software and hardware, and safety.
- Drive the system-level safety case in collaboration with Autonomy, Hardware, Legal, Product, and Operations, ensuring the safety argument is rigorous and tied to deployment milestones.
- Define the technical and validation framework for public-road operation, commercial launch, geographic expansion, platform expansion, and new use cases.
- Lead technical analyses and trade studies informing architecture, sensing configuration, compute strategy, vehicle integration, safety mitigations, ODD expansion, and deployment readiness.
- Create mechanisms for risk identification, readiness reviews, requirements governance, launch decision-making, and cross-functional execution.
- Build, develop, and retain a high-caliber Systems Engineering organization.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of systems engineering experience in automotive, aerospace, defense, robotics, medical devices, or other safety-critical domains
- 7+ years managing managers and scaling high-performing engineering organizations
- Experience leading systems engineering across complex hardware and software products, including safety-critical development (safety case, hazard analysis, risk assessment, validation evidence, deployment readiness)
- Track record of developing senior technical leaders, recruiting top talent, and building high-ownership teams
- Excellent communication skills for explaining complex tradeoffs to engineers, executives, and cross-functional stakeholders
Skills
Required:Systems engineering leadershipRequirements architecture and interface managementSafety case development and validationStrategic systems planning
Benefits
- Annual performance bonus
- Equity
- Competitive benefits package
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Nuro
Autonomy for all. All roads, all rides.
Driving the future of autonomy with the most scalable AI driver.
AutonomyAI driverDelivery robotsRobotaxiAutonomous vehicles
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