Vehicle Safety - Occupant Protection Engineer

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. As a member of the Zoox Vehicle Safety Engineering team you will work with a team of world-class engineers with diverse backgrounds such as robotics, control, and vehicle engineering. You will be responsible for developing occupant protection system performance and you will be involved all the way through the complete vehicle development process from conception to part, system and full vehicle crash testing. You will be working closely with our internal and external safety experts, CAE and module system teams, with our suppliers as well as internal and external test laboratories. Working at Zoox offers you the chance to manifest your technical creativity, utilize your excellent organizational and communication skills and make a big difference in the final product.

Own assigned load cases end-to-end: translate vehicle technical specification (VTS) safety targets into testable metrics, and drive restraint system development through the vehicle integration process to meet them 

Develop virtual and physical DVPs and track execution against plan 

Analyze test results, feedback analysis to engineering teams, and report out at project gateways 

Support system-level and full-vehicle test activities, including defining test requests, test matrix,  instrumentation and test targets with the support of the validation team 

Identify and document performance issues; generate and track Jira tickets to closure

Drive CAE-to-physical test correlation for your load cases  

BS or MS in Engineering with passion for electric, autonomous mobility

5+ years of experience within automotive development and testing, preferable safety testing

Sound knowledge of FMVSS regulations and consumer safety protocols

Experience in virtual and physical safety testing, including analysis in Hyperworks/MetaPost

Ability to build and script templates for first-pass data integrity checks, results analysis, and reporting 

Strong organizational and communication skills

Experience in 3D design and PLM tools, CATIA 3DX or CATIA V5 preferred

Project management experience

Experience with Jira 

DFMEA and SFMEA knowledge; experience with requirements management tools (Polarion or equiv.)

Knowledge of Python

Experience with LS-Dyna