Senior Systems Engineer

About the role

Senior Systems Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our systems engineering team and drive the requirements, system architecture, performance analysis, and functional safety work for AEye's lidar and its variants. You translate customer and product needs into verifiable system and subsystem requirements, define the KPIs the system is measured against and analyze performance data to confirm it meets them, contribute to the definition and documentation of the system architecture and its interfaces, and support the functional safety and cybersecurity activities that take a sensor from concept through production. Working with architecture, hardware, software, firmware, and mechanical teams, you keep requirements, design, verification, and interfaces consistent across disciplines and help the program meet its system- level targets in partnership with engineering, program management, and business development.

Key Responsibilities

- Requirements engineering: elicit, author, and maintain system requirements from customer, product, and regulatory inputs. Decompose system-level targets into clear, verifiable subsystem requirements (EE / ME / FW / SW / optics) with bidirectional traceability from stakeholder need to verification result, using a requirements management tool.

- System architecture: contribute to the definition and documentation of the lidar system architecture, taking ownership of assigned areas such as functional decomposition, hardware/software partitioning, and the interfaces between subsystems (optical, electrical, firmware, software, mechanical, thermal). Author and maintain interface control documents for those areas, keep interface definitions consistent across disciplines, and support trade studies to validate architectural decisions.

- Functional safety and cybersecurity: contribute to the functional safety lifecycle activities for the product per ISO 26262, including item definition, HARA, safety goals, functional and technical safety concepts, and safety analyses (FMEA, FMEDA, FTA, DFA). Support the cybersecurity concept and TARA per ISO/SAE 21434, and SOTIF considerations per ISO 21448, in collaboration with hardware and software teams.

- Verification criteria: define the verification method and acceptance criteria for every system and subsystem requirement, including those derived from environmental and eye-safety standards, and hand them off to the test and validation teams. Review verification evidence to close requirements and keep the traceability matrix current. Test plan authoring and test execution are owned by the test and validation teams, not this role.

- Cross-functional collaboration: act as the technical systems liaison across architecture, hardware, software, firmware, and mechanical teams, contributing to design reviews, resolving interface, integration, and performance issues at the system level, and supporting customer technical reviews and RFI/RFQ responses.

- Manufacturing transition: support the transition of prototypes through R&D validation into production, including production integration, design-for-x, and the process and documentation deliverables required by automotive quality and qualification standards.