Senior/Staff Safety Research Engineer - Quantitative Risk Assessment

Zoox • Foster City, CA

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About The Position

Zoox is on an ambitious journey to develop a full-stack autonomous mobility solution for cities and safely deploy such a robotaxi solution. Zoox’s System Design and Mission Assurance (SDMA) team is responsible for constructing the safety case for each milestone. We play a foundational role for the success of the company. As a safety research engineer focused on quantitative risk assessment, you will help Zoox to improve and expand our existing safety risk assessment framework. The safety risk assessment framework is a critical part of the overall safety case and informs the decision-making in every aspect of the technology.

Requirements

• M.S. or higher degree in an Engineering or Science discipline with a strong focus on Statistics, Probability Theory, or Data Science
• Proficiency in quantitative analysis/modeling tools
• Proficient with SQL / Spark / Python for interfacing with Zoox’s urban driving and simulation data
• At least 3 years of relevant work experience in understanding and quantifying safety risks
• Collaborative team player with strong written and in-person communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Ph.D. in an Engineering or Science discipline with a strong Data Science or Statistics focus
• Publications in the field of quantitative risk assessment for safety engineering
• Experience with human behavior data

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to improve the fidelity of Zoox’s safety and progress performance metrics
• Apply distributed computing algorithms to efficiently analyze petabytes of urban driving and vehicle testing data
• Develop and standardize best practices of safety risk assessment across the company
• Develop and automate the tooling of the the risk assessment framework
• Contribute to the improvement and evolution of the Safety Case of Zoox technology, in close collaboration with cross-functional teams including Software, Hardware, Vehicle Development, Fleet Operations, Safety Strategy and Operations, Legal, etc.

Benefits

• paid time off (e.g. 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees