Zoox

Sensing and Perception System Safety Engineer

Foster City, CAFull timePlatform Safety Engineering and Analysis

$170K – $267Kposted range

Range as posted by the employer.

Posted 4 days ago · listed on Lever

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The job, broken down

Zoox wants a System Safety Engineer to work on sensing and perception systems for their autonomous vehicles. You'd be part of the team that builds the safety case and fail-operational design before these vehicles go on public roads.

What you'd actually do

Perform safety analyses of complex hardware and software systems, specifically sensing and perception systems
Work across both hardware and software domains
Develop system safety requirements and metrics for sensing capabilities
Contribute to the overall safety case and fail-operational design for the autonomous vehicle platform

Must-haves

Experience performing system safety analyses on hardware and software systems
Background working with sensing and/or perception systems
Ability to write and define system safety requirements and metrics
Understanding of fail-operational design principles

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Job duties described only in broad strokes, no concrete deliverables or team structure given

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1Rewrite your resume summary using their exact phrases: 'safety case,' 'fail-operational design,' 'sensing and perception systems,' and 'system safety requirements and metrics'
2Lead with any project where you did safety analysis spanning both hardware and software, not just one domain, since that cross-domain point is called out directly
3If you've worked on sensor safety (lidar, camera, radar fault handling, redundancy) put that at the top of your resume, since it maps directly to their 'Sensing and Perception Systems' focus
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What it's like to work at Zoox

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Zoox is an Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company building purpose-built robotaxis (no steering wheel or pedals), headquartered in Foster City, CA, with testing also happening in San Francisco and Las Vegas. It was acquired by Amazon in 2020 for $1.3 billion and had roughly 1,000 employees as of a 2024 layoff report, likely more now as it approaches paid commercial robotaxi service.

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About the role

Zoox is on an ambitious journey to develop a full-stack autonomous mobility solution for cities and deploy such a robotaxi solution safely and reliably. The System Design and Mission Assurance (SDMA) team plays a foundational role in the company's success, responsible for constructing the safety case and fail-operational design for our autonomous driving robots before public road deployment. We are seeking a System Safety Engineer to perform safety analyses of complex hardware and software systems, specifically Sensing and Perception Systems. You will work across hardware and software domains to develop comprehensive system safety requirements and metrics that ensure safe, fail operational and reliable sensing capabilities for our autonomous vehicle platform.

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