Crash Safety Test and Validation Engineer

The role

You will plan and run safety tests on Zoox's fully autonomous vehicles, from component tests through full vehicle crash testing. You will work with external test labs and analyze and report the results.

What you will do

• Plan and track safety test activities and vehicle hardware requirements
• Develop detailed crash test requests with integration teams
• Provide technical interface to external facilities, including on-site support for test delivery in US and EU
• Ensure component, sub-system, sled, and full-vehicle testing is executed to plan
• Coordinate test vehicle preparation, teardown, and rebuild
• Analyze post-test data and review results with the test lab to confirm data integrity
• Report test results in detail and communicate observations to engineering teams
• Log and track safety performance issues in Jira

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of prior automotive experience
• BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in automotive development and testing
• Detailed knowledge of FMVSS and other legal and consumer safety protocols
• Hands-on experience in passive safety test planning, test vehicle setup and test execution
• Strong organizational and communication skills with a focus on hardware planning, timing plans and process definition

Nice to have

• Experience with 3D design and PLM tools, CATIA 3DX or CATIA V5
• CAN network experience, including data interrogation with CANALYZER
• Familiarity with test sensors (accelerometers, load cells, strain gauges) and data acquisition equipment
• Experience defining and implementing operational workflows in a testing environment
• Knowledge of requirements management tools (Polarion or equivalent)
• Skilled in building scripts/templates for data integrity checks and results analysis (MetaPost, Hypergraph, Python, or similar)
• DFMEA knowledge

About the company

Zoox develops fully autonomous vehicles with a goal of providing customers the highest level of safety. Its Safety Engineering team includes engineers with backgrounds in robotics, control, and vehicle engineering.