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Brief #97137Updated 10 SEP 2026FOSTER CITY, CALeverSOFTWARE COMPANIES
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Body Structures Engineer

Zoox is an American autonomous vehicle company currently headquartered in Foster City, California, United States with multiple offices of operations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The company was founded in…

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Body Structures Engineer

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Job title
Body Structures Engineer
Job location
Foster City, CA
Job description

At Zoox, you’ll collaborate with a team of world-class engineers with diverse backgrounds in areas such as AI, robotics, mechatronics, planning, machine learning, control, localization, computer vision, rendering, simulation, distributed computing, design, and automated testing. You will be challenged to rethink what it means for hardware design to arrive at elegant and efficient systems now that a robot is in control. Working at a startup gives you the chance to manifest your creativity and make a big difference in the final product.

As an individual, or as the lead, you will work to ensure successful delivery of systems and assemblies, from conception through to start of production. Crucial to this success will be driving and managing key relationships with Zoox’s supplier network while Zoox maintains a lean and agile cross functional team in-house. You will use your knowledge to direct the technical effort, your expertise to ground the team and your excellent communication and interpersonal skills to motivate and lead as we take a new path to redefine a traditional and well established industry.

As a member of the Body Systems team, you will have the opportunity to come on board at the start of the development of the next generation of mobility vehicles. As the Body Structures Engineer, you will work across all aspects of the body including the body-in-white structures, crash structures, underbody, surface technologies and the integration of these systems into a brand new vehicle architecture.

In this role, you will:
  • Conceptualize, design (2D and 3D), and lead development/release of vehicle body components/assemblies to meet cost, weight, performance requirements
  • Develop short and long term schedule/plans for component development, release, delivery, and validation
  • Define/negotiate requirements and specifications for body systems to achieve best in class performance in structural, NVH, and crash performance; including DFMEAs, DVP’s and PVP’s, APQP
  • Support validation testing for component/vehicle
  • Support material and manufacturing process decisions both internally and externally
  • Work cross functionally and collaborate with peers, styling studio, packaging, CAE/attribute/test teams, management, manufacturing, suppliers
  • Develop processes, procedures and best practices for Body design and development
  • Qualifications
  • B.S. in mechanical engineering equivalent or higher
  • 4+ years experience in automotive body system design/engineering (OEM/supplier, university SAE team, or equivalent)
  • Knowledge/experience in vehicle engineering, automotive body systems design and engineering fundamentals, body materials and manufacturing processes, and component delivery
  • Experience with the development of specifications, DFMEAs, DVP’s and PVP’s, APQP and other technical and quality assurance processes
  • Experience in engineering best practices including design for six sigma (DFSS)
  • Ability to implement GD&T and dimensional engineering principles in design
  • Proficiency with CATIA V5 or V6 CAD software
  • Strong communication/collaboration skills with peers, suppliers, manufacturing, management
  • Bonus Qualifications
  • Experience at automotive OEM
  • Knowledge of automotive development/release process
  • Polarion, Jira, and Confluence experience.
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