Zoox
Safety Test and Validation Engineer
- Compensation
- $146K–$199K / yr
- Location
- Foster City, CA, US
- Arrangement
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Posted
- 24 September 2026 (6 days ago)
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About this role
In this role, you will: • Plan and track safety test activities and vehicle hardware requirements
• Develop detailed crash test requests, collaborating with integration teams on test and instrumentation needs
• 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
• Conduct post-test data analysis 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
Qualifications • BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering with a passion for electric, autonomous mobility
• 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
• Experience with 3D design and PLM tools, CATIA 3DX or CATIA V5 preferred
Bonus Qualifications • CAN network experience, including data interrogation with CANALYZER
• Familiarity with test sensors (accelerometers, load cells, strain gauges) and data acquisition equipment
• Experience in 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
Work location
- Foster City, CA, US
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Published 24 September 2026, last checked 5 days ago. A posting stops being advertised here 90 days after the employer published it, and one the employer takes down is marked closed rather than quietly removed.