System Verification and Validation Engineer

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice-to-Haves

• 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.