Senior Systems Engineer – Safety Performance | Torc Robotics | Remote (United States)

Posted 2025-09-08
Remote, USA Full Time Immediate Start
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">About the Company</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. <a href="https://torc.ai/daimler-testing-automated-trucks-public/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Now a part of the Daimler family</a>, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Meet The Team:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Torc is looking for a Systems Engineer to join a team responsible for defining, tracking, and steering the safety of our autonomous driving product. This team performs a central role in the product development process by developing and tracking safety cases for our major releases. Our belief is that measurability is the first step to safety and this role will drive explicit measurability and quantification of safety. The team works closely with product management, system and test engineering, legal and regulatory teams, software, hardware, and safety teams and domain experts.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What You’ll Do:</strong></p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work at the highest levels of abstraction within the product to define design goals and their objectives or key performance indicators.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Develop an automated safety metrics framework to evaluate vehicle-level and/or ADS-level performance.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Quantitatively and qualitatively compare performance across multiple operating environments to help refine the ODD (operational design domain) and product requirements.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Identify data sources and data collection mechanisms for assessing operational performance and the characteristics of operating environments.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Lead and communicate data analyses to provide insights to a wide variety of audiences enabling effective decision making and continual improvement.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Monitor safety, performance and quality trends and work with relevant partners to quickly address technical gaps.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Conduct literature reviews to ensure consistency with industry best practices and standards.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Collaborate with Engineering Managers, PMO (Program Management Office), and all relevant partners to ensure design, implementation, testing, and programs are on track, and regularly drive consensus among diverse partners on technical projects.</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What You’ll Need to Succeed:</strong></p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Demonstrate competences and technical proficiencies acquired through:<!-- -->
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">BS+ 6+ years of experience, MS+ 3+ years of experience, or PHD 1+ years of experience.</span></li>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">4+ years of experience in hardware, software, or systems engineering, robotics, data science, or related technical fields.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with performance analyses for HW/SW system, such as reliability, demonstration testing, accelerated validation testing plans, or Weibull analysis.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">2+ years of experience with data analyses or applied statistical analyses, such as data mining, sampling design, analysis of variance, time series analysis, or predictive modeling.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience working with large datasets, SQL, and C/C++ or Python.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Familiarity with Cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ability to understand complex technical systems.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ability to adapt and operate under ambiguity.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A hyper attention to detail with an iterative approach in completing enterprise goal.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Strong interpersonal and communication skills (verbal &amp; written).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Willing to travel up to 10% to Torc offices, test facilities, etc.</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Bonus Points!</strong></p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Professional experience in the Self-Driving Industry.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with Robot Operating System (ROS).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience developing and using REST APIs.</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Perks of Being a Full-time Torc’r</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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:</p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">401K plan with a 6% employer match</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation (available immediately after start date)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Company-wide holiday office closures</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">AD+D and Life Insurance</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Hiring Range for Job Opening</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">US Pay Range</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">$139,000—$166,800 USD</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications listed for this opportunity, we encourage you to apply.</p>
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