Senior Hardware Systems Integration Engineer

About Volley

Volley Automation is building the future of parking through fully automated robotic parking systems. Our mission is to create sustainable parking solutions that are compact, efficient, and adaptable throughout a building’s lifecycle, while making EV charging easier and more accessible.

Are you intrigued by the idea of putting cars away with robots? Do you hate parking? Do you love parking? If so, we’d love to talk.

Volley Automation builds fully automated parking. Drivers hand off their car at the entry bay and walk away. From there the building takes over: AGVs move vehicles on trays, vertical conveyors move them between floors, and a controls and software stack orchestrates everything. The result is a garage that fits more cars into less concrete, in exactly the urban cores where parking is most expensive to build.

Our systems go into real buildings, on real construction schedules, with real occupancy dates. That constraint shapes everything about how we build, develop, and engineer our product.

Volley's parking system is not one machine. It is a system of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs), vertical conveyors and lifts, trays, EV charging, vehicle interchange bays, doors and safety interlocks, fire and life-safety systems, building controls, and the software that drives all of it. Some elements of the system we design while others come from outside suppliers that we integrate and optimize through partnerships.

Making all of it behave as one performant and integrated system is the engineering challenge in front of us.

This role owns that problem.

You will define the interface specifications, flow requirements down to vendors, review their designs, and define what “acceptable” means and what evidence proves it. When a subsystem misbehaves, you are the engineer who can reason across mechanical, electrical, controls, and software to say why, and can support driving the process with supporting functions (e.g. operations) to get it fixed.

You set the standard and build the evidence that translates to fielded system performance. When something behaves differently at a customer site than it did in Denver, you are the technical authority they escalate to and seek innovative solutions to contain the issue and resolve the problem.

System architecture, interface control, and configuration management. Define and maintain the interfaces between subsystems: mechanical envelopes and tolerance stack-ups, power and grounding, signal and network topology, command and state semantics, timing, and failure behavior. Own the interface control documents and keep them true, because in this system those gaps can lead to failures with a lead time. You will also own the configuration management of the HW system, both as built/deployed as well as under development evolution.

Requirements flow-down and traceability. Translate customer commitments, site constraints, and building code obligations into verifiable requirements on each subsystem, and keep the thread from a customer's throughput number to a supplier's acceptance test intact.

Supplier technical ownership. Be the technical counterpart to our AGV, vertical transport, charging, and controls suppliers, from specification and RFQ through design review, factory acceptance, and warranty. Evaluate platforms on their merits, write specifications a vendor can actually build to, and say no when what shows up is not what was specified.

Integration and protocol conformance. We drive supplier AGVs over VDA
5050. Other subsystems speak Modbus, OPC UA, CAN, and vendor-specific APIs. You will own conformance to the interface spec and make sure vendor deviations stay documented and contained at the boundary rather than leaking into our…