Lead Systems Engineer

Lead Systems Engineer

The Lead Systems Engineer is responsible for defining, integrating, verifying, and optimizing the end-to-end system architecture for Miso Robotics' autonomous robotic platforms. This role serves as the technical leader responsible for ensuring seamless integration across mechanical, electrical, embedded, software, cloud, and AI systems while driving system performance, reliability, safety, and product quality from concept through production and field deployment. In addition, this position leads Miso's Design Verification & Systems Engineering (DVSE) team, providing technical leadership, mentoring, and execution oversight to ensure successful product releases and continuous improvement across verification, validation, and systems engineering processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, own, and evolve the overall system architecture for Miso Robotics' robotic platforms, ensuring alignment across mechanical, electrical, embedded, software, cloud, and AI subsystems.
• Translate customer, operational, and business requirements into measurable system requirements and technical specifications.
• Develop and maintain system requirements documentation, interface control documents (ICDs), architecture diagrams, and technical specifications using systems engineering best practices.
• Establish and maintain complete requirements traceability from customer needs through design, implementation, verification, validation, and production.
• Own the end-to-end hardware and software verification and validation (V&V) strategy across all product releases.
• Develop system-level verification plans, test strategies, procedures, and traceability matrices spanning hardware, firmware, software, and cloud services.
• Define verification acceptance criteria and entry/exit criteria for unit, integration, system, regression, and production acceptance testing.
• Lead system integration efforts, coordinating cross-functional engineering teams to validate subsystem interfaces and end-to-end robotic performance.
• Develop and improve automated and manual testing frameworks, including Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) and Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) environments.
• Track and report key quality metrics including test coverage, defect density, verification status, and release readiness.
• Lead Miso's system reliability engineering program by defining reliability requirements, targets, and system performance objectives.
• Conduct reliability growth analysis and monitor KPIs including Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), field failure rates, and other reliability metrics.
• Analyze field performance and customer data to identify trends, drive root cause investigations, and implement corrective actions.
• Lead system-level risk management activities including FMEAs, hazard analysis, and risk mitigation planning.
• Ensure products meet applicable robotics, industrial automation, safety, and regulatory standards including ISO, UL, RIA, and other compliance requirements.
• Lead configuration management efforts to maintain baseline integrity across hardware, firmware, software, and cloud releases.
• Support the complete product lifecycle from concept through design, manufacturing, deployment, field support, and end-of-life.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing and Operations to ensure designs support scalability, serviceability, manufacturability, and long-term reliability.
• Lead the Design Verification & Systems Engineering (DVSE) team, providing technical leadership, mentorship, and day-to-day guidance to systems and verification engineers.
• Prioritize team workload, assign engineering tasks, and ensure execution aligns with product milestones and company objectives.
• Review and approve system requirements, test plans, verification procedures, validation reports, and engineering documentation.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, continuous improvement, and technical rigor.
• Partner closely with Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware, Software, AI, Cloud, Product Management, Manufacturing, Field Operations, and Program Management teams to successfully deliver robotic systems.
• Communicate technical risks, project status, and system readiness clearly to engineering leadership and executive stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Science, or a related engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of systems engineering experience supporting complex multidisciplinary products (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
• Demonstrated experience leading systems engineering, integration, verification, and validation efforts for robotics, automation, embedded systems, or similar complex products.
• Experience working with Linux environments, SQL, and Python and/or C++.
• Experience developing system requirements, interface documentation, verification plans, and requirements traceability.
• Experience performing system-level FMEAs, hazard…