Director, Systems Engineering

About the role:

Mytra's Engineering team is looking for a passionate and strategic systems leader to grow our Systems teams—ensuring we deliver systems that have been architected for exceptional performance and reliability at scale.

As the Director of Systems Engineering, you'll lead the Systems Engineering, System Integration, and System Test functions through the entire product development cycle, developing systems (robotics, among others) that are performant and deployable at scale. You'll lead the team to ensure systems meet requirements, conflicts are discovered early, and risks are identified before they become problems. You'll establish processes that make development more efficient and you'll connect Product, Engineering, and Operations teams. Great candidates are pragmatic and flexible, can draw from deep experience in autonomous mobile robotics, and have successfully led development of impactful engineering systems at scale. This role requires on-site presence at our Brisbane, CA headquarters, for close collaboration with the other teams.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of engineers and managers, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the successful delivery of our systems for deployment at scale
• Supervise the team's successful deliverables through the product development process, which includes:
• • Executing product system and sub-systems architectures along with system-level simulations
  • Defining engineering requirements and specifications
  • Ensuring traceability of cross-functional hardware, software, and product capabilities
  • Identifying risks & mitigations
  • Defining test & validation plans
  • Executing system integration and bring up
  • Testing the systems to validate functional performance, quality assurance, and reliability
  • Ensuring compliance of safety-critical systems
• Support the Systems team and the larger organization by identifying gaps and developing frameworks, processes, and tools to make the work more efficient (e.g. optimizing performance, reliability, and cost, tracking risk, and establishing internal release standards)
• Collaborate with core engineering disciplines, including firmware, software, mechanical, electrical, structural, robotics, and AI, to ensure that products are built to spec and built right, minimizing revision needs
• Identify opportunities for, as well as, foster innovation, learning, and continuous improvement within the Systems team and across the organization

Qualifications:

• You understand robotics or automation environments, and have experience building ground-up, complex hardware-software systems
• 15+ years of hardware/software engineering experience, developing complex or safety-critical systems, with a minimum of 5 years in Systems and 5 years leading engineering/systems teams
• You have proven experience recruiting, leading, and growing engineering ICs and managers
• You have demonstrated the ability to guide solutions to complex, multidisciplinary problems, and bringing cross-functional teams together to deliver on complex systems
• You are experienced and looking forward to building processes, systems, and teams from scratch, and can scale these as the business grows
• B.S. or higher degree in Systems Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical, Mechanical, or other relevant discipline

Preferred Qualifications:

• You have a track record of successfully launching innovative products in the automation or robotics space
• You have experience defining and/or implementing processes that drive efficiency at scale
• You have excellent communication skills and and strong analytical and problem-solving skills, drive results, and take responsibility for outcomes

A Final Note:

You're encouraged to apply even if you can't take on every example project in its totality. We work closely and collaboratively at Mytra - No one takes on projects alone. We seek people who are eager to work together, learn new things, and bring unique perspectives.

Benefits Include:

• Competitive compensation + equity grants at a high growth company backed by top tier VCs
• Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), commuter benefits, and pet insurance
• Lively modern combined office and lab space where we rapidly iterate through design, build and test phases
• Lunch and snacks provided in the office; we eat and share stories together at the "long" table
• Flexible hours and flexible PTO

Pay Notice:

• Compensation for this position will be negotiated based on the candidate's experience level and location. The posted salary band is applicable only to the San Francisco Bay Area and is subject to change.