Senior Energy Engineer

Zoox; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoox in Foster City, California is seeking an experienced engineer to lead energy management for our autonomous vehicles. The successful candidate will develop energy strategies and collaborate with a team on enhancing vehicle performance.

You will spearhead efforts to balance performance and cost, while advocating for energy efficiency throughout development. Applicants need to have a strong technical background with 7+ years of experience, including familiarity with programming languages such as Python or C++.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of direct experience in system design and energy management.
• Familiarity with design optimization processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop holistic engineering and product strategies for vehicle energy management.
• Develop energy budgets and energy saving features.
• Work with simulation engineers on digital vehicle models.

Skills

System design

Energy management

Programming (Python or C++)

Design optimization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or related field

Master’s degree in engineering, physics, or related field

Tools

EV charging infrastructure

Job description

Overview

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, controls, simulation, and vehicle engineering to enable our vehicle to deliver outstanding energy efficiency and range in service. Operating a fleet of robotaxis at scale requires balancing performance, cost, and energy usage in real time - in this position, you will spearhead energy management and energy‑efficient architectures across the vehicle platform and robotaxi fleet. You’ll collaborate on electrical powertrains, high‑voltage batteries, thermal architectures, and low‑voltage systems, as well as the sophisticated compute and sensing suites required for autonomous operation.

Responsibilities

• Develop holistic engineering and product strategies for vehicle energy management.
• Develop energy budgets, energy saving features, and software controls strategies across sub‑systems.
• Work closely with simulation engineers to develop digital vehicle models for energy consumption prediction and vehicle design optimization across drive cycles.
• Integrate those models into larger end‑to‑end simulations to analyze fleet‑wide energy performance for service operations.
• Advocate for energy efficiency as vehicle development progresses - you’ll need passion and backbone to deliver results and make data‑driven tradeoffs on behalf of energy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or a related technical field
• 7+ years of direct experience in system design and energy management in vehicular or robotics domains
• Familiarity with design optimization processes, including multi‑disciplinary analysis and optimization
• Experience working with business and product stakeholders on translating business objectives into engineering requirements
• Master’s degree in engineering, physics, or related technical field
• Expertise with at least one programming language - Python and/or C++ preferred
• Experience with EV charging infrastructure and hardware