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Senior Systems Engineer

Algolux

Algolux

Software Engineering
Blacksburg, VA, USA
USD 184,500-184,500 / year
Posted on May 21, 2025

About the Company

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.

A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.

Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.

JOB DESCRIPTION: Torc Robotics, Inc. seeks a Senior Systems Engineer based out of our U.S. headquarters in Blacksburg, Virginia. However, this is a purely telecommuting/work-from-home position whereby the employee may reside anywhere within the U.S. 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 self-driving 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. Domestic and international travel is required, up to 20% per year.

Minimum 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.

Alternative Requirements: 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.

JOB LOCATION: 405 Partnership Dr, Blacksburg, VA 24060

RATE OF PAY: $184,500.00

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At Torc, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We celebrate the uniqueness of our Torc’rs and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, or disabilities.

Even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications listed for this opportunity, we encourage you to apply.