CAE Engineer – Occupant Safety & Vehicle Integrity Lead

Zoox; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 195,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Unpaid time off

Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights

Amazon RSUs

Health insurance

Long-term care insurance

Long-term and short-term disability

Life insurance

Job summary

Zoox in Foster City, California seeks a Vehicle Safety specialist to lead occupant safety CAE activities across virtual and physical development phases, ensuring sign-off and certification of safety targets for our fully autonomous vehicles.

You will work with robotics, control, and vehicle engineering teams to generate analyses and clear safety inputs, while coordinating model builds and reporting. This role offers impact-driven work in a startup-like environment.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in mechanical engineering or related field.
• Experience with FMVSS, USNCAP, IIHS, ECE, and EU safety protocols.
• Extensive experience in occupant safety CAE using LS-Dyna and related tools.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Experience with basic Python coding.

Responsibilities

• Support vehicle level safety targets to support the Zoox safety strategy.
• Take ownership of the occupant safety CAE and balance with other Vehicle Integration Attributes.
• Set up the vehicle, dummy, restraints models and coordinate model build.
• Support the correlation between virtual and physical testing.
• Support the overall vehicle structural analysis with respect to various attributes.
• Support virtual DVPs and execute accordingly.
• Suggest countermeasure design solutions.
• Generate virtual analysis engineering reports.
• Support report outs at project gateways.
• Lead small teams and weekly cadence meetings.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Python programming

Education

Master's degree in mechanical engineering

Tools

LS-Dyna

BetaCAE

Oasys

LS-Opt

Job description

Zoox in Foster City, California seeks a Vehicle Safety specialist to lead occupant safety CAE activities across virtual and physical development phases, ensuring sign-off and certification of safety targets for our fully autonomous vehicles.

You will work with robotics, control, and vehicle engineering teams to generate analyses and clear safety inputs, while coordinating model builds and reporting. This role offers impact-driven work in a startup-like environment.