Sensing and Perception System Safety Engineer
Zoox · Hybrid
MeritLog read this listing from Zoox's Lever job board and last checked it on September 10, 2026.
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Job details
- Work model
- Hybrid
- Salary
- $170,000 - $267,000
- Location
- Foster City, CA
Hiring context
How this role compares at Zoox
Zoox has 243 live roles in MeritLog’s catalog across 11 job families, and 125 of them are in engineering. 227 of those listings publish a pay range, a disclosure rate of 93%.
This role's posted range of $170,000 - $267,000 sits above 45% of the 220 other Zoox roles quoted over the same currency and period.
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Job description
Zoox is on an ambitious journey to develop a full-stack autonomous mobility solution for cities and deploy such a robotaxi solution safely and reliably. The System Design and Mission Assurance (SDMA) team plays a foundational role in the company's success, responsible for constructing the safety case and fail-operational design for our autonomous driving robots before public road deployment. We are seeking a System Safety Engineer to perform safety analyses of complex hardware and software systems, specifically Sensing and Perception Systems. You will work across hardware and software domains to develop comprehensive system safety requirements and metrics that ensure safe, fail operational and reliable sensing capabilities for our autonomous vehicle platform.