Systems & Safety Engineering Intern [Summer 2027]

The role

You will help build and check safety work for an autonomous vehicle system, following industry standards such as ISO 26262. You will analyze how failures spread across hardware, software and autonomous subsystems, and write Python tools to automate safety analysis.

What you will do

• Build and use AI-assisted engineering workflows to create, maintain and verify safety work products
• Break down system-level requirements and interfaces, and analyze how failure modes spread
• Write Python automation and data analysis scripts to extract metrics, validate requirements and automate safety analysis
• Work with systems, hardware, software and validation teams to improve safety traceability

Required qualifications

• Currently working toward a B.S., M.S., Ph.D. or advanced degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering or a related field
• Good academic standing at an accredited college or university
• Expected to graduate between Fall 2027 and Summer 2028, and enrolled at an accredited institution throughout the internship
• Able to commit to the full 12-week internship beginning in May/June 2027
• Basic understanding of system architecture, interfaces and failure propagation (hazard analysis, FMEA or FTA concepts)
• Demonstrated proficiency in Python for data analysis, scripting and automated tools
• Solid foundation in probability and statistics
• Hands-on experience with modern AI tools and agents, and validating their outputs against specs, standards or data
• Strong written and verbal communication, including writing clear, testable engineering requirements

Nice to have

• Familiarity with ISO 26262, SOTIF/ISO 21448, or hazard analysis methods (FTA, FMEA, HARA)
• Experience designing agentic or LLM workflows beyond simple chat, or with requirements tools (Polarion, DOORS, Jama, Jira)
• Background in automotive, aerospace or robotics systems, and familiarity with Git, SQL and software verification practices

Before you apply

• Interns may not use proprietary information from this work in a thesis, in university publications, or share it outside Zoox

About the company

Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem to bring it to market. It aims to provide mobility-as-a-service in urban environments.