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Zoox is an autonomous mobility company that’s created a purpose-built robotaxi to give the world a better way to ride.
The Role
Leads vehicle strength and durability engineering across robotaxi development, defining performance targets, guiding structural and fatigue analysis, correlating simulations with road-load data, and directing laboratory, proving-ground, and full-vehicle validation. Investigates failures, develops countermeasures, evaluates manufacturing feasibility, and communicates durability status, risks, and technical best practices to cross-functional engineering teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
At Zoox, we have set the goal of providing our customers with the highest level of safety while using our fully autonomous vehicles. You will work with a team of world-class engineers with diverse backgrounds in robotics, control, and vehicle engineering to deliver vehicle performance. As an Operational Strength Attribute Lead, you will ensure that vehicle structures, systems, and components operate safely, reliably, and efficiently throughout their intended lifespan. You will be responsible for evaluating the structural integrity, stiffness, strength, and fatigue resistance of vehicle architectures—such as Body-in-White (BIW), chassis, suspension, closures, and battery enclosures—against real-world operating environments for a robotaxi operating in a dense-urban environment. This role spans the entire product development cycle, balancing requirements definition, computer-aided engineering (CAE) simulations with physical laboratory and track validation to optimize performance and prevent structural failures.
In this role, you will:
- Target setting: Define and own robot-level targets for strength and durability together with internal stakeholders and cascade those targets to the system teams.
- Structural & Fatigue Analysis: Work together with the CAE team to assess static strength, stiffness, dynamic loading, and fatigue behavior of complex mechanical systems.
- Design Optimization: Collaborate early with cross-functional design engineers to develop practical and cost-effective structural solutions that meet vehicle attribute requirements.
- Test-to-Simulation Correlation: Analyze vehicle road load data and correlate findings with simulations to continuously improve model accuracy and establish standardized methodologies.
- Validation & Testing Support: Translate customer usage profiles into laboratory test specifications, design accelerated fatigue life testing cycles, and lead physical component-level or full-vehicle validation programs.
- Complete vehicle lifetime durability performance: lead cross-functional teams to deliver lifetime durability requirements for the complete vehicle.
- Failure & Root-Cause Investigation: Direct laboratory teardowns, conduct root-cause analysis on structural components that fail during physical testing or field service, and verify engineering countermeasures.
- Manufacturing Feasibility: Assess structural designs for manufacturing and assembly capability, checking for bolted joint slippage, door sag, weld performance, and stamping limitations.
- Documentation and Reporting: Provide regular Strength and Durability status updates and generate technical reports as needed.
- Technical Leadership: Share technical knowledge and communicate best practices and performance expectations to cross-functional teams and junior engineers.
Qualifications
- Possess a Master's degree with 10+ years of hands-on experience in automotive Strength and Durability Engineering.
- Demonstrate system and vehicle level testing experience in laboratory and automotive proving ground environments.
- Demonstrate proficiency with durability simulation and analysis software tools (e.g., ANSYS, ABAQUS, ADAMS, nCode).
- Demonstrate familiarity with automotive requirements and validation sign-off standards.
- Demonstrate excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills with the ability to create visualizations of KPIs and program risks.
Bonus Qualifications
- Demonstrate proficiency in tools and processes required to manage complex projects (e.g., JIRA, Confluence).
Skills Required
- Master's degree
- 10+ years of hands-on automotive Strength and Durability Engineering experience
- System- and vehicle-level testing experience in laboratory and automotive proving-ground environments
- Proficiency with durability simulation and analysis tools such as ANSYS, ABAQUS, ADAMS, or nCode
- Familiarity with automotive requirements and validation sign-off standards
- Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills
- Ability to create visualizations of KPIs and program risks
- Proficiency with project-management tools and processes such as JIRA and Confluence
Zoox Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Zoox and has not been reviewed or approved by Zoox.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is extensive, with broad medical and vision options, company‑paid disability coverage, and multiple mental‑health resources. Feedback suggests coverage breadth and auxiliary programs support a wide range of needs.
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Parental & Family Support — Family supports include paid parental leave, additional pregnancy disability time, fertility coverage, and adoption/surrogacy assistance. Backup care and family‑oriented programs further reinforce support across life stages.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Day‑to‑day perks are robust, including free daily meals, fitness subsidies, commuter support, and on‑site amenities. Feedback suggests these lifestyle benefits enhance convenience and workplace experience, especially for office‑based roles.
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The Company
What We Do
Zoox is an autonomous mobility company that was founded to provide a safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable future on the road. To achieve that goal, the company has spent the past 10 years creating a purpose-built robotaxi that gives the world a better way to ride.
Why Work With Us
At Zoox, we are working to solve one of the greatest technological challenges of our generation. From the beginning, we have been focused on our goal of reimagining transportation from the ground up. We are a mission-driven community of innovators working together to create a safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable future on the road.
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