CAE Engineer - Safety occupant

The role

You will support occupant safety for Zoox's fully autonomous vehicles. You will run occupant safety CAE simulations from virtual development through certification, and report results to the safety attribute team.

What you will do

• Support vehicle level safety targets for the Zoox safety strategy
• Own occupant safety CAE and balance it with other Vehicle Integration Attributes
• Set up vehicle, dummy and restraint models and coordinate model build
• Support correlation between virtual and physical testing
• Support overall vehicle structural analysis across various attributes
• Support virtual DVPs and execute them
• Suggest countermeasure design solutions
• Generate virtual analysis engineering reports
• Support report-outs at project gateways
• Lead small teams and weekly cadence meetings

Required qualifications

• Master's degree in mechanical engineering or a related field
• Experience with FMVSS, USNCAP, IIHS, ECE, EU legal and consumer safety protocols
• Extensive experience in virtual development in occupant safety CAE using LS-DYNA
• Extensive experience with BetaCAE, Oasys, LS-DYNA, FE dummies and LS-OPT
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Experience with basic Python coding

About the company

Zoox is developing fully autonomous vehicles and the ecosystem needed to bring them to market at scale. It aims to provide next-generation mobility-as-a-service in urban environments.