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Zoox1K–5K employees

Safety Test and Validation Engineer

Foster City, CA$146,000 – $199,000Posted yesterday

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321 recent H-1B filings · 2 similar-role filings

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Green card sponsorship

Strong historyHigh confidence

This employer has recently sponsored green cards at scale.

93 recent certified PERM filings · 53 similar-role filings

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Job description

At Zoox we have set the goal to provide our customers with the highest level of safety while using our fully autonomous vehicles. As a member of the Zoox Safety Engineering team you will work with a team of world-class engineers with diverse backgrounds such as robotics, control, and vehicle engineering. You will be responsible for planning and execution of component and system tests all the way through to complete vehicle crash testing. Working closely with our internal team and external laboratories you will develop clear and precise protocols and perform tests according to them. Working at Zoox offers you the chance to manifest your creativity, utilize your excellent organizational and communication skills and make a big difference in the final product.

In this role, you will:

  • Plan and track safety test activities and vehicle hardware requirements
  • Develop detailed crash test requests, collaborating with integration teams on test and instrumentation needs
  • Technical interface to external facilities, including on-site support for test delivery in US and EU
  • Ensure component, sub-system, sled, and full-vehicle testing is executed to plan
  • Coordinate test vehicle preparation, teardown, and rebuild
  • Conduct post-test data analysis and review results with the test lab to confirm data integrity
  • Report test results in detail and communicate observations to engineering teams
  • Log and track safety performance issues in Jira

    • Qualifications

  • BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering with a passion for electric, autonomous mobility
  • 5+ years of experience in automotive development and testing
  • Detailed knowledge of FMVSS, and other legal and consumer safety protocols
  • Hands on experience in passive safety test planning, test vehicle setup and test execution
  • Strong organizational and communication skills with a focus on hardware planning, timing plans and process definition
  • Experience with 3D design and PLM tools, CATIA 3DX or CATIA V5 preferred

    • Bonus Qualifications

  • CAN network experience, including data interrogation with CANALYZER
  • Familiarity with test sensors (accelerometers, load cells, strain gauges) and data acquisition equipment
  • Experience in defining and implementing operational workflows in a testing environment
  • Knowledge of requirements management tools (Polarion or equivalent)
  • Skilled in building scripts/templates for data integrity checks and results analysis (MetaPost, Hypergraph, Python, or similar)
  • DFMEA knowledge

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    Employer H-1B history

    321
    recent certified H-1B filings
    188
    new-hire petitions
    2
    filings for similar roles
    347
    so far in FY2026

    Filed titles like this role: test engineer · validation engineer

    More evidence details
    • 2 certified H-1B filings for this same role
    • 321 recent certified H-1B filings across the employer
    • Still filing this year — 347 filings in FY2026
    • 74 USCIS H-1B new-employment approvals, counted separately from LCA filings
    • Strong filing activity in CA
    • 334 further USCIS approvals for extensions or transfers
    • The posting says nothing about sponsorship either way

    Strong filing activity in CA.

    Green card sponsorship evidence

    Employer PERM history

    93
    recent certified PERM filings
    53
    filings for similar roles
    92
    filings in this location
    Certified PERM filings by fiscal year
    202347
    202440
    2025143
    202674YTD

    Filing history reflects past employer behavior; it isn't a promise for this opening.

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