Sensing and Perception System Safety Engineer

The role

You will perform safety analyses of sensing and perception systems for Zoox's autonomous vehicles. You will define safety requirements, work across hardware and software teams, and analyze field and simulation data.

What you will do

• Define safety requirements for sensing (camera, lidar, radar) and perception (sensor fusion, ML models) subsystems
• Lead cross-functional technical projects across Software, Hardware, Operations, Data Science and V&V teams
• Design safety mechanisms using ISO 26262 (HARAs, Functional Safety Concepts) and SOTIF (ISO 21448)
• Work with partner teams on fail operational, cost-optimized next-generation sensing architectures and sensor selection
• Analyze field and simulation data to root cause issues and validate assumptions
• Use AI/LLM tools to accelerate analysis and automate repetitive processes

Required qualifications

• BS or MS in a related technical field such as Electrical/Electronics, Computer, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics or Mechatronics
• Experience as a Design or Systems Engineer for complex or mission-critical systems with fail-operational redundancy, especially in sensing and perception
• 3+ years of hands-on systems, safety or related engineering experience analyzing safety-critical high-integrity systems in automotive, ADAS, autonomous vehicles, aerospace or robotics
• Effective communication and collaboration skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to have

• Experience with sensing hardware, physics, limitations and tradeoffs in safety-critical and fail operational systems
• Experience applying ISO 26262 and ISO 21448 to L2+ ADAS and autonomous vehicles, including hazard analysis, functional decomposition, validation and verification
• Experience with Python and/or Databricks for data mining, analysis and visualization
• Strong analytical skills in performance metrics definition and system-level trade-off analysis
• Understanding of modern perception stacks, ML/AI systems and integration challenges
• Experience with requirements management tools such as Polarion (preferred), DOORS or Jama

About the company

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