System Verification and Validation Engineer - Fail Operational Systems
Zoox · Foster City, CA
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Automotive
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level quality role at Zoox (automotive) in Foster City, CA. , your work will directly impact our fleet’s reliability and fail-operational capabilities through your efforts on the compute-platform safety case.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), Automation
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About the role
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
- ✓Data Analysis and Metrics: Lead data collection and analysis campaigns, defining and validating system performance metrics, driving automation initiatives for analysis and process optimization.
Bonus
Qualifications
- ✓Risk and Reliability: Experience with quantitative risk analysis or statistical reliability analysis.
- ✓Fault Protection: Fault protection system design and validation.
- ✓Functional Safety Standards: Familiarity with ISO 26262, ARP 4754, ARP 4761, or IEC 51511.
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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.