Vehicle Design and Integration Manager
Reliable Robotics
Design
Mountain View, CA, USA
USD 162k-220k / year + Equity
Posted on Sep 6, 2025
We're building safety-enhancing technology for aviation that will save lives. Automated aviation systems will enable a future where air transportation is safer, more convenient and fundamentally transformative to the way goods — and eventually people — move around the planet. We are a team of mission-driven engineers with experience across aerospace, robotics and self-driving cars working to make this future a reality.
As the Manager of the Vehicle Design and Integration team at Reliable Robotics, you will grow, lead, and work within the team driving autonomous vehicle architecture decisions, cross functional systems design, and integrated systems testing. This team is comprised of mechanical, electrical, and software engineers, and the role reports to the Director of Hardware Engineering. This is a broadly talented team of highly motivated people designing, testing, and flying advanced automated systems. We enjoy combining mechanical and electrical hardware and getting it onto an aircraft safely and quickly.
Responsibilities
In your role as a vehicle design and integration manager, you will get to direct vehicle level projects through the planning, design, and testing phases of development. You will manage engineers performing vehicle design and system trades as well as running system level bench and aircraft testing. You will also have the opportunity to own projects as an individual contributor. The team supports the engineering organization through design and testing of primary flight control hardware, data acquisition systems, hardware in the loop testing, ground station development, and integration with the software and human-machine-interface teams. You will be responsible for guiding the schedule and sequencing of large integration projects with significant ownership of which aircraft functions are the highest priority to be integrated and tested on vehicle.
Basic Success Criteria
- Bachelor's degree in science or engineering or equivalent industry experience
- 8+ Years of industry experience designing, integrating, and testing electromechanical systems
- Solid understanding of engineering fundamentals
- Experience applying system design fundamentals
- Experience reading electrical wiring schematics
- Experience testing systems for proper performance
- Experience managing project tasks, milestones, schedules, and execution
- Strong interpersonal skills and an interest in people management
Preferred Success Criteria
- Experience designing a system architecture and weighing design options to accomplish specific system requirements
- Experience performing vehicle safety assessments, risk assessments, and contingency management
- Ability to design, build, and operate test stands and equipment
- Excellent measurement, technical writing, and data analysis skills
- Eagerness to both teach and learn
- Ability to work both independently and as a leader of a high performing team
Must be willing to travel up to 10% of the time.
The estimated salary range for this position is $162,000 to $220,000/annual salary + cash and stock option awards + benefits. At Reliable Robotics we strive to provide competitive and rewarding compensation based on experience and expertise, as well as market conditions, location, and pay equity.
In addition to base compensation, Reliable Robotics offers stock options, employee medical, 401k contribution, great co-workers and a casual work environment.
This position requires access to information that is subject to U.S. export controls. An offer of employment will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to perform in compliance with U.S. export control laws.
All applicants are asked to provide documentation that legally establishes status as a U.S. person or non-U.S. person (and nationalities in the case of a non-U.S. person). Where the applicant is not a U.S. person, meaning not a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident, (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or not otherwise permitted to access the export-controlled technology without U.S. government authorization, the Company reserves the right not to apply for an export license for such applicants whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code requires authorization and may decline to proceed with the application process and any offer of employment on that basis.
At Reliable Robotics, our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, ancestry, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability or medical conditions, national origin, military or veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other basis covered by applicable law. All employment and promotion is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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