System Verification and Validation Engineer
Senior/Staff Systems V&V Engineer responsible for developing test plans, designing system-level verification campaigns, analyzing results, and ensuring fail-safe and fail-operational behaviors for Zoox's autonomous robotaxi compute platform. Requires 5+ years in safety-critical V&V, functional safety, HIL/vehicle testing, and Python proficiency.
About the job
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.
Skills
Verification And Validation, Functional Safety, System Testing, Hardware-In-The-Loop, Python, Probability, Statistics, Iso 26262, Arp 4754, Arp 4761, Iec 61511, Fault Detection, Risk Analysis, Reliability Analysis
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