Senior Systems Engineer

About the role

Here at Humanoid, we believe in a future where robots amplify human potential. That’s why we’ve set out on a mission to build the world’s most capable, commercially-scalable, and safe humanoid robots. We’re bringing that mission to life with HMND‑01 - our rapidly developed humanoid platform being deployed in real industrial environments - and we’re growing the team to take it even further.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer – Software & Autonomy to support the definition, architecture, integration, and verification of the software systems that enable our humanoid robotic platform.

The role will work across perception, localisation, navigation, artificial intelligence, motion planning, controls, ROS 2 platform software, simulation, deployment, and diagnostics. You will collaborate with software leads and subject matter experts to translate product and operational needs into coherent capabilities, requirements, architectures, interfaces, integration plans, and verification criteria.

This is a systems engineering position focused on the robot’s software and autonomy stack. It is not primarily a firmware development or electrical engineering role.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Obtain input from system leaders, product teams, and technical subject matter experts to translate stakeholder needs into clear and verifiable system and software requirements.

- Define the software capabilities required to support humanoid robot behaviours, operational use cases, and product objectives.

- Decompose system-level capabilities across perception, navigation, AI, planning, controls, core platform, and supporting software services.

- Develop and maintain the functional and logical architecture of the robot’s software and autonomy stack.

- Define system boundaries, responsibilities, dependencies, and interfaces between software components and technical teams.

- Establish interface requirements covering data ownership, message definitions, coordinate frames, units, timing, latency, synchronization, quality indicators, fault handling, and degraded operation.

- Support architectural decisions involving, middleware, compute allocation, networking, simulation, software deployment, and distributed execution.

- Coordinate integration across perception, navigation, AI, controls, platform software, firmware, electronics, sensors, actuators, and mechanical systems.

- Identify cross-team assumptions, dependencies, architectural conflicts, and missing functionality before they become late-stage integration issues.

- Define integration stages, entry and exit criteria, required test environments, and readiness expectations.

- Lead or support the investigation of complex system-level issues involving multiple software components or interactions between software and hardware.

- Define nominal, degraded, recovery, fallback, and safe-state behaviours for software-intensive functions.