Systems Engineer

Hyliion is committed to creating innovative solutions that enable clean, flexible and affordable electricity production. The Company’s primary focus is to develop distributed power generators that can operate on various fuel sources to future-proof against an ever-changing energy economy.

Job Purpose

The Senior Systems Engineer is a key technical leader responsible for the high-level architectural design of the full KARNO generator system’s mechanical, electrical, and fluid hardware, ensuring it satisfies customer and product requirements from concept through delivery. This role owns the translation of customer and product manager inputs into detailed technical requirements and leads the engineering and validation testing effort needed to prove the system out.

Working across mechanical, electrical, thermal, and fluid systems disciplines, the Senior Systems Engineer partners closely with project management, production, and manufacturing teams to keep the product on schedule, while also providing technical mentorship to less experienced members of the engineering team, with the ability to step into hands-on design work directly when needed. This role advances KARNO’s development through disciplined systems thinking, clear requirements ownership, and strong cross-functional leadership.

AI at Hyliion

At Hyliion, AI is core to how we work. We equip every team member with leading AI tools and count on you to use them — to move faster, solve harder problems, and help us realize the full potential of KARNO technology for the world.

Duties and Responsibilities

System Architecture & Design

• Lead and execute the high-level architectural design of the full KARNO generator system to satisfy customer requirements
• Make system-level design trade-offs across mechanical, electrical, thermal, and fluid subsystems
• Ensure architectural decisions align with performance, cost, manufacturability, and reliability goals
• Perform system-level assembly layout in 3D CAD to support architectural design and packaging decisions

Requirements Definition

• Lead efforts to convert customer and product manager requests into detailed technical requirements for design execution
• Ensure requirements are clear, testable, and traceable through the design process
• Flag conflicts or gaps between customer intent and technical feasibility early

Test Planning & Validation

• Plan and lead the engineering and validation test effort for the KARNO generator system