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Senior Systems Engineer, Fail Operational Capabilities

Zoox· Product, Features & Homologation
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Foster City, CA$204k - $280kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Role focused on developing Fail-Operational capabilities for Zoox mobility service, collaborating across Vehicle, Autonomy, and Operations to deliver design solutions, verification plans, and cross-functional debugging support.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Fail-operational designSystems engineering documentationStakeholder collaboration

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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