Education: Bachelor's degree or related field
Experience: 5+ years
We're looking for talented teammates who'll help us maintain strong teamwork and are passionate about driving results.
This role follows a hybrid work schedule and you will report to a Systems Engineer Lead.
- Own the systems engineering for novel rider facing features including but not limited to early pullovers, rider pick up, and rider drop off
- Work with cross functional teams including software engineers, product managers, safety engineers, and operations leads to develop requirements and system architecture for new features that support critical user journeys
- Take ownership of the solution, considering applicability to long term goals, and appropriately use engineering judgement and experience to inform paths forward
- Collaborate closely with software engineers on design documents and support implementation with developmental testing
- Partner with our test engineering team to develop rigorous and scalable recurring testing to prevent regressions
- Create dashboards and monitoring to validate in field performance and be the point person to debug field issues when they occur, owning comprehensive cross functional retrospectives as needed
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or other technical field
- 5+ years of experience in systems engineering, software development, or related field
- A systems engineering mindset and a proactive, data-driven approach to fixing problems
- An ability to read C++ to understand feature implementation and debug issues more effectively and an ability to write code for querying data sets (SQL) and creating dashboards
- Ability to think about the rider and an understanding of what might pose a safety risk for a given feature
- Aptitude to apply existing technical depth to new areas and learn quickly
- Experience in safety critical aspects of the operation of fleets or delivery of production products at scale
- Experience working on features or products with a user experience focus
- Experience defining requirements such as precision and recall for machine learning perception models
- Experience performing or collaborating on safety analyses (e.g., Hazard and Risk Assessment, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis, System-theoretic Process Analysis (STPA), Safety of the Intended Function (SOTIF), etc.)
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