- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle
- Location
- Foster CityCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Aug 4, 2026
- Salary
- $204,000–$280,000 a year
Full-time
Senior Systems Engineer, Fail Operational Capabilities
Job description
Zoox — Senior Systems Engineer, Fail Operational Capabilities (Foster City, California).
Job 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.
Job requirements
- 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.
- Prior experience in fail-operational or safety-critical systems design
- Experience with software development and architecture principles
- Experience with requirements management tools (Polarion, DOORS, JAMA, etc) and MBSE tools (Cameo, Magicdraw, Catia Magic, etc)
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