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Hardware Systems Engineer

Applied Intuition· Hardware
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Sunnyvale$130k - $220kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Hardware Systems Engineer responsible for owning system, hardware, and EE level requirements for a new strategic product. Boasts MBSE modeling, architecture definition, and verification/traceability, with focus on test benches, rigs, and compliance processes (ASPICE, ISO 26262) in a non hands-on hardware development role.

Responsibilities

  • Decompose and allocate vehicle-level requirements into system-, hardware-, and EE-level requirements; define system bounds, capabilities, and functional features.
  • Convert customer needs and autonomy/Vehicle OS use cases into system and hardware requirements and operational objectives for the system as a whole.
  • Ensure the built system meets its intended requirements, and keep requirements current as vehicle-level requirements evolve.
  • Define the electrical and electronics (EE) architecture for test benches and rigs used to validate the product, including hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) rigs and bench setups.
  • Specify power distribution, wiring and harnessing, signal interfaces, instrumentation, data acquisition (DAQ), sensor/actuator emulation, and safety interlocks for benches and rigs.
  • Capture bench and rig requirements and interfaces, and partner with the teams that build and maintain them so the infrastructure delivers the coverage needed to verify system and software requirements.
  • Use Cameo (MBSE/SysML) to build, maintain, and analyze the functional and logical architecture, and define variant management for Vehicle OS products.
  • Own validation and verification of requirements at both the system and hardware level.
  • Maintain end-to-end traceability across user journeys, features, system requirements, subsystem/hardware/EE requirements, bench and rig definitions, and test cases - across the full toolchain.
  • Define processes for ASPICE Level 2 compliance, partner with the QA team to meet industry standards (e.g., ISO 26262 functional safety), and configure Polarion (requirements management) and Cameo (architecture management) for compliant industry processes.
  • Work daily with hardware, embedded, perception, and autonomy software teams, providing requirements guidance so the delivered design stays as close as possible to the intended design.
  • Coordinate with test, validation, and lab teams to align bench and rig capability with the program's verification needs.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of systems or hardware systems engineering experience (5+ preferred) covering requirements, functional decomposition and allocation, analysis, and verification.
  • Bachelor’s and/or Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience deriving and allocating requirements from higher-level (e.g., vehicle-level) requirements.
  • Working understanding of EE systems - power, wiring and harnessing, signal interfaces, instrumentation, and DAQ - sufficient to define test benches and rigs.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication - able to move fluidly between deep technical detail and stakeholder-level clarity.

Skills

Required:requirements decomposition and allocationMBSE/SysML modelingverification and traceability
Nice to have:ASPICE and ISO 26262 awareness
Last updated Oct 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Applied Intuition

Building vehicle intelligence | Applied Intuition

Applied Intuition is the vehicle intelligence company with the tools, Vehicle OS, and autonomy stacks for creating safe, AI-powered vehicle experiences.

AIAutonomy stacksSelf-Driving SystemSimulationTesting & ValidationVehicle IntelligenceVehicle OSai-infrastructure-and-development
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