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Manager, Sensor Integration & Cleaning Hardware

Zoox· Advanced Hardware Engineering – Sensor Engineering
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Foster City, CA$179k - $280kPosted 1mo ago

About the role

Lead a multidisciplinary team designing, integrating, validating, and launching sensor assemblies and sensor cleaning systems for Zoox autonomous vehicles, ensuring sensors perform across environmental conditions and scale to production.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of mechanical, electrical, and systems engineers developing sensor assemblies and sensor cleaning systems for Zoox's autonomous vehicle fleet.
  • Own program delivery for sensor integration and sensor cleaning hardware, from concept through validation, launch, and fleet support.
  • Set technical direction and review key design decisions across mechanical packaging, electrical integration, and system-level architecture for sensor and cleaning subsystems.
  • Partner with sensor performance, perception, test, manufacturing, and quality teams to ensure designs meet performance, reliability, and manufacturability requirements.
  • Manage program scope, schedule, and resourcing across multiple concurrent sensor integration and cleaning projects.
  • Drive cross-functional design reviews, DFMEA/PFMEA processes, and validation planning to de-risk programs ahead of production.
  • Represent the team in front of engineering leadership, communicating program status, technical tradeoffs, and risks.
  • Recruit, develop, and retain engineering talent, and build a strong culture of technical rigor and ownership within the team.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of engineering experience in mechanical, electrical, or systems engineering, with prior experience in sensor systems, sensor cleaning, exteriors or closures.
  • 3+ years of experience directly managing engineers, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management.
  • Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional hardware programs from concept through production, including specification authoring, supplier selection, DFMEA, DV/PV testing, and manufacturing readiness.
  • Strong technical fluency across mechanical design (CAD, tolerance stack-up, fluid/pneumatic systems) and electrical integration (sensor interfaces, wiring/harness design, controls).
  • Experience managing program scope, budget, and schedule across multiple concurrent workstreams.
  • Excellent cross-functional communication skills, with experience presenting technical tradeoffs and program status to engineering leadership.

Skills

Required:Sensor integration hardware program managementMechanical design and packagingElectrical integrationDFMEA/PFMEACross-functional leadership

Benefits

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