Vehicle Safety - Occupant Protection Engineer

The role

You will own assigned load cases from vehicle safety targets through testing. You will drive restraint system development and analyze test results on vehicle safety and occupant protection.

What you will do

• Translate vehicle technical specification safety targets into testable metrics
• Drive restraint system development through the vehicle integration process
• Develop virtual and physical DVPs and track execution against plan
• Analyze test results and give feedback to engineering teams
• Report out at project gateways
• Support system-level and full-vehicle test activities
• Define test requests, test matrix, instrumentation and test targets with the validation team
• Identify and document performance issues and track Jira tickets to closure
• Drive CAE-to-physical test correlation for your load cases

Required qualifications

• BS or MS in Engineering
• Passion for electric, autonomous mobility
• 5+ years of experience in automotive development and testing
• Sound knowledge of FMVSS regulations and consumer safety protocols
• Experience in virtual and physical safety testing, including analysis in Hyperworks/MetaPost
• Ability to build and script templates for data checks, results analysis and reporting
• Strong organizational and communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience in safety testing
• Experience in 3D design and PLM tools, CATIA 3DX or CATIA V5
• Project management experience
• Experience with Jira
• DFMEA and SFMEA knowledge
• Experience with requirements management tools (Polarion or equiv.)
• Knowledge of Python
• Experience with LS-Dyna

About the company

Zoox works on electric, autonomous mobility. This posting is for a vehicle safety role on its vehicle development team.