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System Verification and Validation Engineer - Fail Operational Systems

Zoox· Platform Safety Assurance
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Hybrid (Foster City, CA)$160k - $221kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior / Staff Systems V&V Engineer within the Platform Safety Assurance team of the System Design and Mission Assurance (SDMA) group, focusing on fail-safe and fail-operational verification and validation for the compute-platform safety case in Zoox’s autonomous mobility platform.

Responsibilities

  • Understand and review vehicle response strategies for fault conditions from all potential sources
  • Develop and manage test planning and execution for safety and fail-operational responses
  • Design and direct system-level V&V campaigns, establish novel testing methodologies, establish robust testing metrics, and ensure the robotaxi meets end-to-end safety and fail-operational requirements for Zoox milestones including for highway driving
  • Work and collaborate closely with system safety, perception, firmware, vehicle controls, and planning engineering teams to understand and review requirements, vehicle response strategies, and secure buy-in for new processes for fault conditions
  • Analyze, track, and report complex test results to drive platform improvements, documenting new methodologies and V&V reports
  • Apply expertise in verification and validation to the compute-platform safety case, accelerating new platform development, and establishing robust fail-safe and fail-operational behaviors.

Qualifications

  • BS or higher degree in Electrical, Computer or Systems Engineering
  • 5+ years of specialized experience, including demonstrable experience in: Verification and Validation (V&V); Functional Safety & Diagnostics; System and Component Testing; Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) and Vehicle Testing
  • Proficient in Python for data analysis
  • Basic proficiency with probability and statistics
  • Data Analysis and Metrics: lead data collection and analysis campaigns, defining and validating system performance metrics, driving automation initiatives for analysis and process optimization.

Skills

Required:Verification and Validation (V&V)Functional Safety & DiagnosticsSystem and Component TestingHardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) and Vehicle TestingPython

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
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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