System Verification and Validation Engineer - Fail Operational Systems

Zoox is on an ambitious journey to develop and safely deploy a full-stack autonomous mobility solution for cities. We are seeking a Senior / Staff Systems V&V Engineer to join the Platform Safety Assurance team within the System Design and Mission Assurance (SDMA) team, applying sound systems and verification engineering to fail-safe and fail-operational behaviors to realize this mission. At Zoox, we take systems engineering seriously and know that your efforts will be critical for delivering a driverless robotaxi service at scale. In this role, your work will directly impact our fleet’s reliability and fail-operational capabilities through your efforts on the compute-platform safety case.

In this role, you will:

• 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 a technical field, such as Electrical, Computer or Systems Engineering.

• 5+ years of specialized experience, including demonstrable experience in one or all of the following:

• Verification and Validation (V&V): Deep experience in V&V processes and methodologies, particularly within the context of safety-critical systems and safety cases.

• Functional Safety & Diagnostics: Expertise in fault detection, mitigation systems, and verifying diagnostic coverage.

• System and Component Testing: Strong background in system-level testing, its requirements, and its relationship with component-level and unit testing.

• Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) and Vehicle Testing: Experience executing and assuring capabilities using HIL and physical vehicle-level testing.

• Proficient in Python for data analysis.

• Basic proficiency with probability and statistics