The Role
We’re hiring a Systems Engineer to own system-level alignment across our robotic platforms.
This is classical systems engineering — not IT, not DevOps. You will define how hardware and software come together, ensure every requirement is measurable, and prevent integration failures before they happen.
You are the person who makes sure the entire system works — not just the parts.
What You’ll Do
- Ensure all engineering teams are building to a shared, testable system definition
- Translate product requirements into clear, quantified engineering specifications and maintain system architecture and interface documentation
- Eliminate integration surprises before they occur
- Own hardware/software interface control and evaluate all cross-team changes for system-wide impact before release
- Establish disciplined engineering execution across the product lifecycle
- Define and enforce design gate reviews (PDR, CDR, DVT, PVT) with clear entry/exit criteria
- Guarantee that every requirement is verifiable and validated
- Define acceptance criteria and system-level test procedures; maintain full requirements traceability from definition through verification
- Keep hardware and software development tracks aligned and converging
- Partner closely with hardware and software leads to manage dependencies, risks, and trade-offs across teams
- Close the gap between simulation and real-world performance
- Quantify system-level discrepancies and drive improvements that ensure field reliability
What We’re Looking For
- 5–8 years of systems engineering experience on shipped electromechanical or robotic products
- Experience owning or maintaining hardware/software interface specifications (ICDs)
- Strong background in requirements definition, decomposition, and validation
- Experience with formal design reviews (PDR/CDR or equivalent)
- Ability to understand mechanical, electrical, and software systems at a working level
- Experience in robotics or complex hardware systems preferred
What We’re Not Looking For
- Systems administrators or DevOps engineers
- Candidates without experience on physical products
- Engineers who prefer loosely defined requirements over structured execution
Why Join Lucid Bots?
- Work directly with the founder of a fast-growing, venture-backed robotics startup.
- Be part of a team solving real-world problems with frontier technology.
- Get a front-row seat to fundraising, company building, and startup strategy at scale.
- Learn more in one year than most people do in five—this is a career accelerant.
- Help support the culture, pace, and systems of a company scaling fast and building things that matter.
Benefits:
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 3% retirement match
- 15 days of paid time off (PTO)
- 3 sick days
- 11 paid holidays, with 3 of those being floating holidays
- Employee stock option plan
We’d Love to Hear from You!
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- Why here? Why are you excited about Lucid Bots specifically?
- Why you? What is the one thing about you that a resume can’t capture?
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