Staff Closures Architect for Autonomous Vehicle Systems

Lever, Inc.; Foster City (CA); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 256,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Unpaid time off

Zoox RSUs

Amazon RSUs

Health insurance

Long-term care insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

Zoox is seeking a Staff Closures Engineer to own the closures architecture for the vehicle. You will be the subject matter expert for doors, latches, hinges, actuators, seals, and glazing, interfacing with body, EE, firmware, and manufacturing teams.

This is hands-on; you will drive concept through sourcing, validation, and launch. The role requires ownership of the closures system, specifying trade-offs, and delivering production-ready CAD and GD&T while mentoring others and advancing

Qualifications

• BS in Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, or a related field.
• Demonstrated ownership of a closures system at the architecture level, with requirements and trade-off decisions.
• Mass-production experience in full vehicle development cycles.

Responsibilities

• Own the closures architecture across current and future vehicle programs.
• Define mechanism topology, load paths, sealing, actuation, and detection strategies with cost/mass/timing trade-offs.
• Lead design and DFMEA for critical closures components and generation of production-quality CAD and drawings with GD&T.
• Mentor engineers, interface with EE/firmware/manufacturing/service, and drive cross-functional closure programs.
• Perform section-capacity, inertia calculations, and basic FEA (SimSolid) to validate designs.

Skills

3D CAD

Kinematic synthesis

DFMEA

GD&T

System-level thinking

Education

BS in Mechanical Engineering or related field

Tools

CATIA

SimSolid

Python

MATLAB

Job description

Zoox is seeking a Staff Closures Engineer to own the closures architecture for the vehicle. You will be the subject matter expert for doors, latches, hinges, actuators, seals, and glazing, interfacing with body, EE, firmware, and manufacturing teams.

This is hands-on; you will drive concept through sourcing, validation, and launch. The role requires ownership of the closures system, specifying trade-offs, and delivering production-ready CAD and GD&T while mentoring others and advancing