# Sensing and Perception System Safety Engineer

**Company:** [Zoox](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zoox)
**Location:** Foster City, CA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $170k – $267k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** System Safety, Safety Requirements, Iso 26262, Sotif, Iso 21448, Sensor Fusion, Autonomous Vehicles, Adas, Python, Databricks, Polarion, Doors, Jama, Hazard Analysis, Requirements Management
**Posted:** 2026-09-04

> Develops safety requirements, analyses, and fail-operational architectures for autonomous-vehicle sensing and perception systems. The role requires 3+ years analyzing safety-critical systems and familiarity with functional-safety standards, sensing hardware, perception, and cross-functional systems engineering.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define safety requirements for sensing systems, including cameras, lidar, and radar, and perception subsystems such as sensor fusion and machine-learning models.
- Lead cross-functional technical projects involving Software, Hardware, Operations, Data Science, and Verification and Validation teams.
- Collaborate with perception, hardware, software, firmware, and systems engineering teams to design safety mechanisms using ISO 26262 and SOTIF (ISO 21448) standards.
- Develop safe, fail-operational, and cost-optimized sensing architectures and guide selection of next-generation sensors.
- Analyze field and simulation data to identify root causes, next steps, and assumption validation.
- Use AI and large-language-model tools to accelerate analysis and automate repetitive processes.

## Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a related technical field, such as electrical/electronics engineering, computer engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, robotics, or mechatronics.
- Experience designing or engineering complex or mission-critical systems with substantial fail-operational redundancy, particularly sensing and perception systems.
- 3+ years of hands-on systems, safety, or related engineering experience analyzing safety-critical, high-integrity systems in automotive, ADAS, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, or robotics.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with sensing hardware, physical principles, limitations, and tradeoffs in safety-critical and fail-operational systems.
- Experience applying ISO 26262 functional safety and ISO 21448 SOTIF to L2+ ADAS and autonomous vehicles.
- Experience with hazard analysis, functional decomposition, validation, and verification.
- Experience with Python and/or Databricks for data mining, analysis, and visualization.
- Strong analytical skills in performance-metric definition and system-level tradeoff analysis.
- Understanding of modern perception stacks, ML/AI systems and their requirements, and integration challenges.
- Experience with requirements-management tools such as Polarion, DOORS, or Jama.

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