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# Senior Systems Process Engineer

- **Company:** Blue Chip Talent
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Release Management
- **Published:** August 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/us/en/find-jobs-in-United-States/-81ACA94631A8C91E81/

## About the Role

* 10+ years leading configuration and release systems for complex, safety-critical products
 * Experience in SDV, OTA, and software-first product development (OEM or Tier-1 preferred)
 * Strong knowledge of UNECE R156 (SUMS) and ISO?26262, with an automation-first mindset
 * Ability to balance fast iteration with regulatory and safety requirements
 * Clear communicator with a long-term, systems-level perspective

## Description

In this role, you'll design scalable processes and toolchains that connect vehicle feature requirements all the way to secure OTA deployment-ensuring end-to-end traceability, automation, and compliance.

 * All Candidates must work on our W-2 with no restrictions.
 * NO 3rd Party Vendors or C2C is allowed.

What You'll Do

 * Architect and implement configuration, variant, and release management for software, hardware, and ECU-based systems
 * Enable a strong digital thread from systems engineering to OTA delivery
 * Partner across Quality, Homologation, Systems, HW, DevOps?, and OTA teams
 * Establish a reliable Single Source of Truth (BOM/SBOM) across the lifecycle
 * Integrate solutions into PLM, ALM, and CI/CD ecosystems


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