Senior Systems Engineer, Fail Operational Capabilities

Zoox; Foster City, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 196,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights

Amazon RSUs

Health insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

Zoox is seeking an E2E Feature Engineer to lead Fail-Operational design for the mobility service. You will partner with Product, Safety, Operations, Legal, and other systems engineers to deliver robust capabilities across Vehicle, Autonomy, and Operations segments.

You will create and maintain high-quality requirements, MBSE artifacts, and verification plans, driving cross-functional collaboration through the entire V cycle. A strong technical leadership background is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, CS, or Physics.
• Experience designing complex systems that integrate multiple hardware and software components, with full HW/SW lifecycle understanding.
• Proven ability to produce high-quality documentation and MBSE artifacts (context diagrams, decomposed requirements).

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of Fail-Operational behaviors balancing safety, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Own design and implementation outcomes with cross-functional teams across V-cycle.
• Create and maintain verifiable requirements and model-based designs; translate stakeholder input into clear specifications.
• Lead triage with cross-functional stakeholders for bugs or issues.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements decomposition

Technical leadership

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, CS, or Physics

Tools

Polarion

DOORS

JAMA

Cameo

MagicDraw

Catia

Job description

About the Team

The End-to-End (E2E) Feature and Homologation team brings systems engineering focus and discipline to Zoox mobility-as-a-service deployment and operations. We are systems engineers working with key business stakeholders to define and deliver remarkable product capabilities that span across Vehicle, Autonomy, and Operations segments. We partner with the systems teams from each domain by leveraging their deep technical knowledge, implementation expertise, and validation techniques to deliver a fully verified product capability. The result is E2E ownership of a world-class mobility service.

About the Role

E2E Feature Engineers are the champions of their feature domains, which cut across Vehicle, Autonomy, and Operations segments of the Zoox mobility service. You will be responsible for developing Fail-Operational capabilities of the Zoox mobility service. Through strong relationships with internal stakeholders (Product, Safety, Operations, Legal, etc.) and other systems engineers, you will deliver: design solutions, systems engineering documentation, multi-quarter capability plans, verification plans, and debug support.

In This Role, You Will

• Lead the design of Fail-Operational behaviors while balancing safety, reliability, and operational efficiency. Partner with the functional safety team to identify product risks and quantify fail-operational performance.
• Own the outcome for the design and implementation of features with Hardware, Software, Operations, IT, Safety, Manufacturing, and Validation teams throughout the entire V cycle.
• Create and maintain high-quality and verifiable requirements and model-based designs, decomposing input from stakeholders to drive clarity and precision for systems specifications.
• Lead triage with cross-functional stakeholders for bugs or reported issues.

Qualifications

• 8 years of engineering work experience, alongside a Bachelor\'s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Physics.
• Experience designing complex systems that integrate multiple hardware and software components, paired with a solid understanding of full HW/SW development lifecycles.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver strong technical documentation (context diagrams, requirement decomposition, presentations)
• Proven leadership, organization, and communication skills.

Bonus Qualifications

• Prior experience in fail-operational or safety-critical systems design
• Experience with software development and architecture principles
• Experience with requirements management tools (Polarion, DOORS, JAMA, etc) and MBSE tools (Cameo, Magicdraw, Catia Magic, etc)

$196,000 - $236,000 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.

Zoox also offers a comprehensive package of benefits, including 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, and life insurance.

• 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