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Senior/Staff Systems Engineer, Powertrain System Safety and Fail Operational

Zoox· SDMA / System Design and Mission Assurance
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Hybrid (Foster City, CA)$170k - $306kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Senior/Staff Systems Engineer focused on powertrain safety and fail-operational design for autonomous vehicles, responsible for developing safety cases, fault-tolerant architectures, and ensuring mission assurance for powertrain functions.

Responsibilities

  • - Lead powertrain safety and fail-operational design and analysis covering high-voltage battery systems, charging, propulsion, and on-vehicle load management
  • - Architect vehicle-level safety concepts, focusing on fault tolerance, and fail-operational behaviors necessary for supporting autonomy and ensuring mission assurance on the vehicle’s powertrain functions
  • - Develop vehicle level safety concepts covering fault detection, and vehicle level reaction for ensuring the powertrain systems can achieve mission objectives under presence of faults
  • - Own the delivery of key work-products including hazard analysis risk assessment (HARA), fault tree analysis (FTA), functional safety concept, vehicle level safety requirements, safety clearance artifacts, and quantitative residual risk assessments
  • - Drive consensus across product, feature, operations, vehicle engineering, software, autonomy and legal teams to implement and release safety requirements

Qualifications

  • - B.S. or higher degree in Automotive, Aerospace, Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering
  • - Proven track record with electrified powertrains (battery management systems, motor drives/inverters, high to low voltage DC/DC converters, vehicle torque management, etc)
  • - Hands-on experience in developing for safety-critical applications in autonomous vehicles, automotive, or aerospace spanning both fail-safe and fail-operational regimes
  • - 4+ years of work experience conducted hazard analysis risk assessment, authoring requirements and their decomposition, managing requirements and requirements traceability through development
  • - Experience performing first-principles based analysis, simulation (Matlab, Python, etc), etc to drive trade-offs between various architectural choices, diagnostics or reactions
  • - Hands-on experience creating work-products for functional safety standards ISO 26262, ISO 13849, IEC 61508, DO-178C, DO-254, or equivalent
  • - Experience with requirements management tools such as Jama, Doors, Polarion, etc.
  • - Collaborative team player with strong written and in-person communication skills, capable of influencing and driving consensus, and presenting complex data to varied audiences including senior executives

Skills

Required:Powertrain safety designFault tolerance and fail-operational conceptsHazard analysis and risk assessment (HARA)Requirements management

Benefits

  • - paid time off (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
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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