Zoox
Senior Systems Engineer, Fail Operational Capabilities
$204K–$280K
Foster City, CA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 4, 2026
- Experience
- 8 years of engineering work experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Physics.
About the job
Develops and delivers fail-operational capabilities for Zoox’s mobility service across vehicle, autonomy, and operations systems.
What you'll do
- Design fail-operational behaviors, assess product risks, and quantify performance with the functional safety team.
- Lead feature design and implementation across hardware, software, operations, IT, safety, manufacturing, and validation through the V cycle.
- Develop verifiable requirements and model-based designs, and lead cross-functional issue triage.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Physics.
- Experience designing complex systems integrating multiple hardware and software components, with understanding of full HW/SW development lifecycles.
- Ability to produce technical documentation, including context diagrams, requirement decomposition, and presentations.
- Demonstrated leadership, organization, and communication skills.
Nice to have
- Prior experience in fail-operational or safety-critical systems design.
- Experience with software development and architecture principles, or requirements management and MBSE tools.
Pay
USD 204,000–280,000 per year base salary
Tools
Polarion, DOORS, JAMA, Cameo, Magicdraw, Catia Magic
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