Stealth Mode ยท 10 hours ago
Lead Systems Engineer
Stealth Mode is a venture-funded physical AI robotics company seeking a Lead Systems Engineer. This role offers full ownership of system-level architecture and integration for a safety-critical autonomous robotic platform, focusing on ensuring performance, reliability, and manufacturability in real-world applications.
Responsibilities
Own architecture for a complex autonomous electromechanical system
Define system requirements, interfaces, performance budgets, and margins
Drive architecture decisions using first-principles reasoning, modeling, and quantitative trade studies
Balance performance, safety, reliability, manufacturability, cost, and operational complexity
Act as the technical glue across mechanical, electrical, embedded, software, and controls
Lead interface definition, integration planning, and system bring-up
Debug cross-disciplinary issues spanning hardware, firmware, and software
Build and maintain system-level models for throughput, latency, reliability, uptime, and cost
Evaluate lifecycle cost, scaling behavior, and deployment realities
Update assumptions using manufacturing and field data
Architect systems for high-volume manufacturing and nationwide rollout
Drive system-level DFM/DFA strategy
Design for serviceability, logistics, variability, and field reliability
Define system-level V&V strategy
Lead integration testing, root-cause analysis, and failure investigations
Drive FMEA and system-level risk mitigation
Qualification
Required
8+ years working on complex autonomous or electromechanical systems
Experience shipping systems that operate continuously in the real world
Operated as a Staff / Principal-level individual contributor
Company
Stealth Mode
Stealth Mode
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase