Senior Feature Validation Engineer

Join Zoox as a Senior Feature Validation Engineer and play a key role in bringing our autonomous vehicle to life. As part of the Feature Integration Verification and Validation team, you’ll lead the effort to validate complex vehicle-level functions and ensure they meet production-level quality. In this high-impact role, you’ll lead a growing team of engineers while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to develop, validate, and continuously improve the robot’s features and capabilities. You’ll be a hands-on technical leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment, holding yourself, your team, and the broader organization accountable for delivering on system requirements. This role sits within the Vehicle Development organization and is critical to supporting the integration and validation of Zoox’s ground-up autonomous vehicle platform.

In this role, you will:

• Lead cross-functional validation efforts across software, hardware, systems, and simulation to ensure seamless performance of autonomous vehicle features

• Build and mentor a high-performing team of engineers, driving technical excellence and ownership in feature verification and validation

• Develop and scale automated test solutions to improve coverage, speed, and reliability

• Optimize test strategies and workflows to accelerate feature maturity and deployment

• Coordinate end-to-end testing to validate new features and support public road compliance in partnership with the Homologation Team

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field

• 10+ years of experience in hardware, software, and systems verification and validation

• Proven ability to design scalable test strategies across diverse engineering teams

• Hands-on experience testing integrated vehicle systems, including electrical, mechanical, and HMI components

• Experience leading and growing teams, with strong organizational and cross-functional communication skills

Bonus Qualifications

• Working knowledge of requirements management tools (Polarion, JIRA)

• Experience diagnosing issues on CAN, Automotive Ethernet, and LIN

• Familiarity with LINUX and Python

About Zoox

Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. Sitting at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and design, Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobility-as-a-service in urban environments. We’re looking for top talent that shares our passion and wants to be part of a fast-moving and highly execution-oriented team.

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Accommodations

If you need an accommodation to participate in the application or interview process please reach out to accommodations@zoox.com or your assigned recruiter.

A Final Note:

You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. Here at Zoox, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to be successful, and we are committed to building a team that encompasses a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.