Senior Systems Engineer

Full Timesenior

Ann Arbor, MIPosted January 12, 2026

Job Description

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 300,000 autonomy-enabled 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 leverages a comprehensive understanding of the company's products and technologies to facilitate cross-functional engineering initiatives. This role will support system design activities, ensure alignment with requirements and collaborate with test and validation teams to establish verification criteria. The Senior Systems Engineer leads continuous improvement efforts throughout the organization and develops training materials outlining process flows and tool usage instructions to ensure regulatory compliance and best practice.

Essential Responsibilities

Leverage a system level understanding of our products and technologies to support cross-functional engineering efforts
Create and maintain requirement specifications for our autonomous systems 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 execute methods for identifying and documenting general and location specific Operational Design Domain (ODD)
Analyze real-world and simulation results to identify performance trends, uncover
potential issues, and provide insights for improvements
Lead engineering process continuous improvement activities, proposing solutions and gaining buy-in from impacted teams
Evaluate industry and regulatory requirements for applicability to May Mobility products
Performing FMEA analysis, tracking findings to resolution