Staff Systems Engineer, Mission Management

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.

Meet the team:

Our dynamic team includes diverse expertise from Autonomy, Trucking, Automotive, IoT, and Aerospace industries. Responsible for modeling the behavior of our cutting-edge Self-Driving Truck and Mission Control systems, we create top-level requirements driving design and testing efforts. With a global presence spanning the United States and Germany, we collaborate closely with stakeholders across Torc, fostering collaboration and driving our product to market.

What you’ll do:

Torc is looking for a Staff Systems Engineer to provide technical leadership to a team responsible for defining, tracking, and updating the requirements for the system used to manage and interact with a fleet of self-driving trucks. This team provides a central role in the product development process, refining product needs into verifiable requirements that drive the development of Torc’s Mission Control software suite. To achieve this goal, the team works closely with product managers, systems, safety, software, and hardware teams.

• Collaborate with product managers to understand the customer and business needs for mission control tools
• Define requirements to guide the development of mission control tools for autonomous trucks, covering topics such as mission management, remote assistance, and roadside interaction
• Collect feedback from implementation, testing, and verification activities, driving improvements to the specification
• Determine how mission control components shall interact with each other and the self-driving truck to produce the desired operational features and capabilities of the product
• Work with subject matter experts to evaluate tradeoffs through the design process
• Employ model-based design practices to specify the behavior of the system
• Build physical, logical, and behavioral architecture models, capturing different views of the system under development
• Collaborate with all areas of the system, software, and hardware development for autonomous trucks sharing experience, driving progress of the project using a systems engineering viewpoint
• Mentor other team members, growing the overall systems engineering expertise of the team

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Master’s degree in systems engineering, computer science, robotics, or related technical field
• 7+ years technical design experience for robotic, automotive, or aerospace systems
• Broad understanding of engineering fundamentals and design of software heavy systems
• Direct experience authoring requirements for a system or complex software application
• Open to occasional travel to partner or customer facilities

Bonus Points!

• Experience with fleet management software, transportation management, hub management
• Experience with development of Autonomous Vehicles or related support tools
• Experience developing cloud software applications where compliance to standards is required, for example Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards
• Model-based systems engineering experience
• Software development experience

Perks of Being a Full-time Torc’r

Torc cares about our team members and we strive to provide benefits and resources to support their health, work/life balance, and future. Our culture is collaborative, energetic, and team focused. Torc offers:

• A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options
• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees
• 401K plan with a 6% employer match
• Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation (available immediately after start date)
• Company-wide holiday office closures

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. We’re always looking for those that are hungry, humble, and people smart and your unique experience may be a great fit for this role or others.