Zoox
Seating and Passive Safety HW Validation Engineer
Foster City, CA · Senior
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About the role
- The Component and System Hardware Validation team at Zoox is responsible for ensuring our components and sub-systems on the Zoox robotaxi meet all functional and reliability targets needed to facilitate our autonomous mobility service.
- This will include managing internal and external testing resources as well as supplier-led validation activities which ensure durability, reliability, and safety targets are satisfied.
Responsibilities
- Develop and manage test plans to validate mechanical, electrical, and environmental failure modes around our interior trim, seating and restraints systems (Occupant Classification, airbags, seatbelts, ACU).
- Support DFMEA activities to ensure that all potential failure modes are adequate covered within the validation plan
- Support root cause failure analysis activities during development, validation, and deployment
- Design test fixtures necessary to complete testing
- Manage validation schedule to ensure appropriate test assets are available and critical path items are identified
- You will work closely with cross-functional teams to understand root causes of failures, identify mitigation strategies, and incorporate learnings into new designs.
- Collaborate with design engineers to ensure that requirements are clearly defined and captured within the validation plan
Requirements
- 8+ years of test or validation experience related to interior automotive trims, seats and restraints systems.
- Experience with failure and root cause analysis
- Experience generating and managing DFMEAs
- Experience with requirements management tools (Polarion or equiv.)
- BS or MS in mechanical engineering, or related relevant field
Nice to have
- CATIA 3DX or CATIA V5 or SolidWorks preferred
- Experience with passive safety systems
- Seat structure, anchorage, and recliner/track/latch strength testing (static, dynamic, fatigue)
- Crash/sled test setup, instrumentation, and data interpretation (head restraints, whiplash, belt anchorages)
- Seatbelt systems: retractors, pretensioners, load limiters, buckles, webbing, anchorages
- Steering wheel, knee, curtain, side, and pedestrian airbag architecture
- active hood/pop-up systems
- UN 3268 (safety devices, transport), UN Manual of Tests and Criteria, DOT/ADR hazmat rules, and local explosives handling regulations (e.g., ATF in the US)
Compensation
- $190k-$228k
Company info
- Our team has an action-biased culture marked by integrity, humility, competence, and passion for the Zoox mission and the systems we design.
- We are building real products here and are looking for doers to join us.
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