Zoox is looking for a Systems Engineer to join our team. You will work with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy systems that enable safe autonomous driving. Your core responsibility will be to ensure these systems are developed within a safety engineering process that achieves both safety targets and product requirements.
What You'll Do
- Lead powertrain safety and fail-operational design and analysis covering high-voltage battery systems, charging, propulsion, and on-vehicle load management.
- Architect vehicle-level safety concepts, focusing on fault tolerance and fail-operational behaviors necessary for supporting autonomy and mission assurance.
- Develop vehicle level safety concepts covering fault detection and vehicle-level reactions to ensure powertrain systems can achieve mission objectives under faults.
- Own the delivery of key work-products including hazard analysis risk assessment (HARA), fault tree analysis (FTA), functional safety concept, vehicle level safety requirements, safety clearance artifacts, and quantitative residual risk assessments.
- Drive consensus across product, feature, operations, vehicle engineering, software, autonomy and legal teams to implement and release safety requirements.
What We're Looking For
- B.S. or higher degree in Automotive, Aerospace, Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering.
- Proven track record with electrified powertrains (battery management systems, motor drives/inverters, high to low voltage DC/DC converters, vehicle torque management, etc.).
- Hands-on experience in developing for safety-critical applications in autonomous vehicles, automotive, or aerospace spanning both fail-safe and fail-operational regimes.
- 4+ years of work experience conducting hazard analysis risk assessment, authoring requirements and their decomposition, and managing requirements traceability.
- Experience performing first-principles based analysis and simulation (Matlab, Python, etc.) to drive architectural trade-offs.
- Hands-on experience creating work-products for functional safety standards ISO 26262, ISO 13849, IEC 61508, DO-178C, DO-254, or equivalent.
- Experience with requirements management tools such as Jama, Doors, or Polarion.
- Collaborative team player with strong written and in-person communication skills, capable of influencing consensus and presenting complex data to varied audiences.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of embedded development (firmware, and electrical).
- Experience designing real-time control systems.
Technical Stack
- Matlab
- Python
- Jama
- Doors
- Polarion
Team & Environment
You will join cross functional teams including product, feature, operations, vehicle engineering, software, autonomy, and legal.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation includes a base salary range (representative of range of levels, varies by location and level) plus equity in the form of Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights.
- Paid time off (sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
- Unpaid time off
- Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
- Amazon RSUs
- Health insurance
- Long-term care insurance
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
Zoox values diverse perspectives as they foster the innovation we need to be successful. We are committed to building a team that encompasses a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.
