CAE Engineer - Safety occupant
Foster City, CA$195k - $234kFull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Role focused on occupant safety CAE across virtual and physical development phases to meet vehicle safety targets for Zoox's autonomous vehicles.
Responsibilities
- Support vehicle level safety targets to support the Zoox safety strategy
- Take ownership of the occupant safety CAE and support balancing with other Vehicle Integration Attributes
- Setting up the vehicle, dummy, restraints models and co-ordinating model build
- Support the correlation virtual / physical
- Support the overall vehicle structural analysis with respect to various attributes
- Support virtual DVPs and execute accordingly
- Suggest countermeasure design solutions
- Generate virtual analysis engineering reports
- Support report outs at project gateways
- Experience of leading small teams and weekly cadence meetings
Qualifications
- Masters degree in mechanical engineering, or related field
- Experienced with FMVSS, USNCAP, IIHS, ECE, EU legal and consumer safety protocols
- Extensive experience in virtual development in occupant safety CAE using LS-dyna
- Extensive experience in SW tools, BetaCAE, Oasys, LS-Dyna, FE dummies, LS-Opt
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Experience with basic Python coding
Skills
Required:occupant safety CAELS-DynaBetaCAEPython
Benefits
- Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
- Amazon RSUs
- health insurance
- long-term care insurance
- long-term and short-term disability insurance
- life insurance
- paid time off (sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
- unpaid time off
- sign-on bonus may be offered
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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