CAE Engineer - Safety occupant

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

About Zoox

Zoox is developing fully autonomous vehicles and the supporting ecosystem required to bring the technology to market at scale. Sitting at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and design, Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobility-as-a-service in urban environments. We believe the transition to self-driving vehicles requires a combination of elegant vision and uncompromising execution.

The Role

At Zoox we have set the goal to provide our customers with the highest level of safety while using our fully autonomous vehicles. You will work with a team of world-class engineers with diverse backgrounds such as robotics, control, and vehicle engineering, to deliver the Vehicle Safety performance. Performing the occupant safety simulation activities through the virtual and physical development phases, to sign off and certification. Using analysis, reporting and excellent communication skills to give clear inputs to the safety attribute team to ensure complete vehicle safety targets are met. Working at a startup gives you the chance to manifest your creativity and make a big difference in the final product.

In This Role, You will:

• Support vehicle level safety targets to support the Zoox safety strategy
• Take ownership of the occupant safety CAE and support balancing with other Vehicle Integration Attributes
• Setting up the vehicle, dummy, restraints models and co-ordinating model build
• Support the correlation virtual / physical
• 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
• Experience of leading small teams and weekly cadence meetings

Qualifications

• Masters degree in mechanical engineering, or related field
• Experienced with FMVSS, USNCAP, IIHS, ECE, EU legal and consumer safety protocols
• Extensive experience in virtual development in occupant safety CAE using LS-dyna
• Extensive experience in SW tools, BetaCAE, Oasys, LS-Dyna, FE dummies, LS-Opt
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Experience with basic Python coding

$195,000 - $234,000 a year

Base Salary Range

There are three major components to compensation for this position: salary, Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights. A sign-on bonus may be offered as part of the compensation package. The listed range applies only to the base salary. Compensation will vary based on geographic location and level. Leveling, as well as positioning within a level, is determined by a range of factors, including, but not limited to, a candidate's relevant years of experience, domain knowledge, and interview performance. The salary range listed in this posting is representative of the range of levels Zoox is considering for this position.

Benefits

• paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
• unpaid time off
• Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
• Amazon RSUs
• health insurance
• long-term care insurance
• long-term and short-term disability insurance
• life insurance