Autonomous Vehicle Safety & Restraint Engineer

Lever, Inc.; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 151,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoox is seeking a Vehicle Safety Engineer to join the Safety Engineering team, contributing to occupant protection performance from concept to full-vehicle crash testing.

You will translate safety targets into measurable metrics, develop test plans, and collaborate with CAE, suppliers, and validation teams to achieve vehicle safety goals. A strong background in automotive testing and CATIA-based design is required.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years in automotive development and testing, preferably safety testing.
• Solid 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 first-pass data integrity checks, results analysis, and reporting.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• Experience in 3D design and PLM tools, CATIA 3DX or CATIA V5 preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own assigned load cases end-to-end: translate vehicle safety targets into testable metrics and drive restraint system development through vehicle integration.
• Develop virtual and physical DVPs and track execution against plan.
• Analyze test results, provide feedback to engineering teams, and report at project gateways.
• Support system-level and full-vehicle test activities, including defining test requests, matrix, instrumentation and targets with validation team support.
• Identify and document performance issues; generate and track Jira tickets to closure.
• Drive CAE-to-physical test correlation for load cases.

Skills

Engineering degree

5+ years automotive testing

FMVSS knowledge

Virtual/physical safety testing

Data analysis scripting

Communication skills

3D CAD PLM

Education

BS or MS in Engineering

Tools

Hyperworks

MetaPost

CATIA 3DX

CATIA V5

Job description

Zoox is seeking a Vehicle Safety Engineer to join the Safety Engineering team, contributing to occupant protection performance from concept to full-vehicle crash testing.

You will translate safety targets into measurable metrics, develop test plans, and collaborate with CAE, suppliers, and validation teams to achieve vehicle safety goals. A strong background in automotive testing and CATIA-based design is required.