Zoox
Senior Systems Engineer, Fail Operational Safety Strategy
$194K–$306K
Foster City, CA · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 15, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Education
- B.S. or higher degree in Systems Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Develops fail-operational safety strategies and fault-response systems for Zoox autonomous vehicles expanding into new operating environments.
What you'll do
- Define the fail-operational safety strategy and roadmap for new operating environments and ODDs.
- Design fault-response strategies and assess fault handling and recovery using resilience and safety metrics.
- Partner with engineering and operations teams on system safety, and use AI and LLM tools to accelerate analysis and automate processes.
What they ask for
- B.S. or higher in Systems Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong systems engineering background, including requirements management and system architecture development.
- Understanding of fault detection, isolation, and recovery, including redundancy, failover, and graceful degradation.
- Strong quantitative analysis, modeling, performance metrics, trade-off analysis, technical communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Nice to have
- Advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in a relevant field; autonomous vehicle or complex robotics experience.
- Familiarity with Polarion, DOORS, data analysis tools, system safety analysis, requirements validation, and standards including ISO 26262 and ISO 21448.
Pay
USD 194,000–306,000 per year base salary
Tools
AI, LLM, Polarion, DOORS, Databricks, BigQuery, Looker, Grafana
AI focus
Use AI and LLM tools to accelerate analysis and automate repetitive processes.
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