Senior/Staff Safety Research Engineer, Crash and Injury Modeling jobs in United States
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Zoox · 1 day ago

Senior/Staff Safety Research Engineer, Crash and Injury Modeling

positionFoster City, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
money$185K/yr - $291K/yr
date5+ years exp

Zoox is on an ambitious journey to develop a full-stack autonomous mobility solution for cities and safely deploy such a robotaxi solution. You will be part of the SDMA Safety Research team, enhancing foundational approaches used in the safety case and leading data analysis and collision injury modeling.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous VehiclesMachine LearningRoboticsTransportation
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Lead data analysis of various crash data sources including naturalistic driving data and crash databases to establish road user safety benchmarks
Lead the development of collision injury modeling using empirical, testing, and other data sources to inform the evaluation of Zoox autonomous driving safety performances
Improve our safety risk assessments methodology and data sources
Contribute to the development and evolution of the Safety Case of Zoox technology, in close collaboration with cross-functional teams including Systems Engineers, Software and Hardware Engineering, Safety Strategy and Operations, Vehicle Engineering, Policy, Legal, etc

Qualification

Biomechanical engineeringInjury epidemiologyQuantitative analysisPythonCrash data analysisMechanical engineeringStatisticsCommunication skillsTeam collaboration

Required

M.S. or higher degree in an Engineering or Science discipline with a focus in biomechanical engineering, injury epidemiology, mechanical engineering, statistics or similar
Proficiency in quantitative analysis/modeling and relevant tools
Have the ability to use Python to interface with Zoox internal driving and simulation data sources
5+ years relevant experiences in analyzing automotive crash and naturalistic databases
Collaborative team player with strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred

Ph.D. in an Engineering or Science discipline with a Data Science or Statistics focus
7+ years of relevant work experience related to traffic conflicts, naturalistic driving data analysis, and/or injury epidemiology
Publications in the field of vehicle/traffic safety research and collision epidemiology

Benefits

Paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
Unpaid time off
Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
Amazon RSUs
Health insurance
Long-term care insurance
Long-term and short-term disability insurance
Life insurance

Company

Zoox

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Zoox is an AI robotics company that provides mobility-as-a-service and self-driving car services. It is a sub-organization of Amazon.
dateFounded in 2014
location
Foster City, California, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
web-link
https://www.zoox.com/

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$955M
Key Investors
Grok Ventures
2020-06-26Acquired
2019-10-21Convertible Note· $200M
2018-07-08Series B· $465M

Leadership Team

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Nelson Pedreiro
Sr. Vice President, Hardware
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Zheng Gao
Director of Hardware Engineering
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