Senior Systems Engineer - Sensor Selection
May Mobility · Ann Arbor, MI - Hybrid · United States · Hybrid
Pay: USD 120,000 – 140,000 a year
Posted Jun 25, 2026
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May Mobility is transforming cities through autonomous technology to create a safer, greener, more accessible world. Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, May develops and deploys autonomous vehicles (AVs) powered by our innovative Multi-Policy Decision Making (MPDM) technology that literally reimagines the way AVs think. Our vehicles do more than just drive themselves - they provide value to communities, bridge public transit gaps and move people where they need to go safely, easily and with a lot more fun. We’re building the world’s best autonomy system to reimagine transit by minimizing congestion, expanding access and encouraging better land use in order to foster more green, vibrant and livable spaces. Since our founding in 2017, we’ve given more than 500,000 autonomous rides to real people around the globe. And we’re just getting started. We’re hiring people who share our passion for building the future, today, solving real-world problems and seeing the impact of their work. Join us.
Job Summary
The Senior Systems Engineer serves as the integrating function across the multi-disciplinary teams developing the Next Gen Autonomous Driving Kit, ensuring software, hardware, and product targets remain aligned throughout the development lifecycle. This role is responsible for producing polished requirements and specifications and for optimizing and negotiating trade-offs across the entire development process, Including with OEM partners. Complementing the unit-level testing already performed within the team, the Senior Systems Engineer owns systems integration and validation activities necessary to ensure program objectives are met as designed. This role also works to streamline the interfaces between system architects, controls, and OEM platform partners.
Essential Responsibilities
Leverage a system level understanding of our products and technologies to support cross-functional engineering efforts
Act as the binding agent across multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring software, hardware, and product requirements and targets remain aligned across the ADK 6.0 program
Own systems integration and validation activities to ensure the platform performs as designed, complementing unit-level testing performed within the team
Define and develop metrics to verify that the system and its subsystems satisfy feature and system requirements
Create and maintain requirement specifications by:
Analyzing stakeholder, product, and safety requirements to define technical system and subsystem requirements
Supporting system design activities, assessing impact and conformance to requirements
Collaborating with test and validation team to define verification criteria for system requirements
Reviewing legacy requirements to ensure completeness and correctness
Develop and maintain requirements and specifications to a level of polish suitable for OEM partner collaboration
Identify, negotiate, and resolve cross-functional trade-offs and conflicts across…