Senior Energy Engineer

Number of employees

4100

Foster City, CA

Posted on: 2026-06-26

Category: emobility

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Senior

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Zoox is transforming mobility-as-a-service by developing a fully autonomous, purpose-built fleet designed for AI to drive and humans to enjoy.


At Zoox, we have set the goal to provide our customers with the highest level of safety while using our fully autonomous vehicles. You will work with a team of world-class engineers with diverse backgrounds such as robotics, controls, simulation, and vehicle engineering to enable our vehicle to deliver outstanding energy efficiency and range in service. Operating a fleet of robotaxis at scale requires balancing performance, cost, and energy usage at the time - in this position, you will spearhead energy management and energy-efficient architectures across the vehicle platform and robotaxi fleet. You’ll collaborate on electrical powertrains, high-voltage batteries, thermal architectures, and low-voltage systems, as well as the sophisticated compute and sensing suites required for autonomous operation.

In this role, you will:

  • Develop holistic engineering and product strategies for vehicle energy management.
  • Develop energy budgets, energy saving features, and software controls strategies across sub-systems.
  • Work closely with simulation engineers to develop digital vehicle models for energy consumption prediction and vehicle design optimization across drive cycles.
  • Integrate those models into larger end to end simulations to analyze fleet wide energy performance for service operations.
  • Advocate for energy efficiency as vehicle development progresses - you’ll need passion and backbone to deliver results and make data-driven tradeoffs on behalf of energy.
  • Qualifications

  •  Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or a related technical field
  • 7+ years of direct experience in system design and energy management in vehicular or robotics domains
  • Familiarity with design optimization processes, including multi-disciplinary analysis and optimization
  • Experience working with business and product stakeholders on translating business objective into engineering requirements 
  • Bonus Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in engineering, physics, or related technical field
  • Expertise with at least one programming language - Python and/or C++ preferred
  • Experience with EV charging infrastructure and hardware
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