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Hardware Engineer - Test Development

Zoox· Vehicle Development – Vehicle Integration, Testing & Validation
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Foster City, CA$151k - $182kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Hardware Engineer on the Autonomy Hardware Validation team, focused on design validation and production validation testing of ECUs for Zoox’s autonomous robotaxi. Build test setups, run tests, analyze failures, and use AI tools to accelerate test development.

Responsibilities

  • Build, debug and maintain test setups for vehicle ECUs, including fixtures, test carts, harnesses, fault injection racks, power supplies, electronic loads, data acquisition and thermal chambers.
  • Run electrical, environmental and reliability tests in Foster City labs and at local test labs, and document the results clearly.
  • Write test automation and tools in Python, and use AI tools to review specifications and test procedures, synthesize results and speed up test development.
  • Support root cause analysis of test failures with validation, design, firmware and supplier quality engineers, and track issues to closure in Jira.
  • Add capacity where it’s needed most, working with validation leads to turn their validation plans into working test setups and procedures.

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience in hardware test, hardware validation or electrical engineering, and a BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related field.
  • Hands-on experience with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, DMMs and data acquisition systems.
  • Experience building or modifying test setups such as harnesses, fixtures or instrumentation, and reading schematics to debug board-level issues.
  • Working proficiency in Python for test automation or data analysis.
  • Comfortable using AI tools to review documents, synthesize information and build test tooling, and checking their output critically.
  • Experience with fault injection, hardware-in-the-loop or automated test equipment for electronics.
  • Experience with automotive validation standards such as ISO 16750, CISPR 25 or ISO 11452, including EMC or cold-weather testing.
  • Experience working in Jira, Polarion or another ALM tool.

Skills

Required:Test setup constructionPythonLab equipment
Nice to have:AI tools for testing

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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