Company Description
Nema is an AI company based in San Francisco. We develop AI agents for managing the engineering lifecycle for complex hardware systems. We're working with robotics, automotive and defense companies to ensure American leadership in these critical industries.
What you'll do
- Own the SE domain model - define how Nema Agents represents requirements, hazards, functions, interfaces, verification objectives, and architectural elements for autonomous air vehicles and defense systems.
- Write the playbooks - build reference templates and process libraries for the standards our customers are subject to
- Lead customer calls - lead technical discovery with VPs of Engineering, Heads of Systems Engineering, and Chief Safety Engineers. Translate what you hear into product requirements.
- Be the public face of Nema in the SE community - speak at conferences, write the technical content that shows our customers how we're approaching the problem
- Ship the AI evals - partner with our research team to define what "good" looks like for the Agent
What you've already done
- Have 10+ years experience in systems, safety, V&V, or certification engineering on autonomous or safety-critical platforms
- Stood up the systems engineering function at a UAS, eVTOL, missile, satellite, autonomous ground/maritime, industrial robotics, or automotive program
- Managed requirements traceability across mechanical, electrical, firmware, autonomy software, GNC, and payload domains on a program with five-figure requirement counts
- Have direct experience with aerospace (DO-178C, DO-254), automotive (ISO 26262, ASPICE), or robotics (ISO 10218, ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288) certification regimes
- Have worked across the full V - concept of operations, stakeholder needs, system requirements, architecture, ICDs, subsystem allocation, integration and qualification test
- Are excited about LLMs / Agents as collaborators, not threatened by them
You'll be a strong fit if you
- Tool administrator or migration lead for DOORS, Jama, Polarion, Flow at a previous company
- Can fluently tailor **ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288** technical processes to the realities of fast-moving startups
- Background at a defense prime, eVTOL OEM, AV company, space prime, or automotive Tier 1 where you helped build (or break) the SE process.
- Walked a software-intensive weapon system through a Software System Safety Technical Review Panel (SSSTRP)
- Off-highway / autonomous earth-moving experience under ISO 19014 (functional safety for earth-moving machinery) - relevant to our autonomous mining, construction, and agricultural robotics customers
- Are excited about LLMs as collaborators, not threatened by them. You don't need to be a ML engineer, but you should have opinions about what AI should and shouldn't do inside an SE workflow.
Bonus
- Published work, a conference talk or open source software project
- Active Secret or TS/SCI clearance
- Operated a program under ITAR / EAR
We’re backed by Category Ventures, BoxGroup and industry insiders from Google DeepMind, Waymo, Amazon and Applied Intuition.
