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Zoox is hiring a Mechanical Engineer - Sensor Cleaning in Foster City, CA. It is a full-time on-site role in Software & IT, first listed on November 13. The advertised pay is $157,000–$216,000 a year. The description mentions CAD, SolidWorks, Python and Airflow. Zoox has 99 other openings in the US, 90 of them in Foster City, CA. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 64 Software & IT openings in Foster City, CA today; the typical one asks for 7 years and advertises about $235,000 a year at the midpoint.
How the pay compares
Zoox advertises $157,000 to $216,000 a year, a midpoint of $186,500 a year. Where an offer lands in a range usually depends on experience and on the exact location. That is lower than about 66% of the 1,279 software & IT jobs in California that publish a yearly rate on USA Jobs 24, where the typical midpoint is $213,000 a year. To see roughly what this leaves after federal and California tax, try our take-home pay calculator.
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About hiring at Zoox
Zoox has 100 openings on USA Jobs 24 today across 6 states. Most are in software & IT (40), data & AI (18) and product & design (12). The biggest locations are Foster City, CA (91), Seattle, WA (9) and Boston, MA (6). None of them is fully remote, 14% are open to entry-level candidates and 85% show pay. We collect Zoox's jobs every day straight from its own careers system (Lever), never from job boards or agencies.
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As a Mechanical Engineer on the Sensor Cleaning team, you will design, validate and launch hardware systems that keep our camera, lidar, radar and other autonomy sensors operating at their best regardless of the environmental conditions we operate in.
You will own components and systems end to end: from developing proofs of concept, vehicle integration, design and release, to validation in our climatic wind tunnel and across our fleet. You will drive solutions that maximize sensor performance, improve vehicle availability, and support scalable deployment of Zoox autonomous vehicles.
In this role, you will:
- Develop sensor cleaning components and systems to manage debris, rain, and snow across our global operations.
- Design and build mockups, proofs of concept and functional prototypes; develop packaging studies to support vehicle integration.
- Develop and release CAD, engineering drawings and BOMs supported by tolerance analysis, DFMEA, DFM/DFA and reliability assessments.
- Collaborate with our validation team on test plans, test fixtures design, and testing failure analysis.
- Support wind tunnel and fleet testing of sensor cleaning functionality.
- Own your hardware performance in the field. Diagnose and troubleshoot fleet issues affecting sensor cleaning performance.
- Collaborate with manufacturing and quality engineers to ramp production processes and meet build objectives.
Design and development
Validation and testing
Fleet support and production
Qualifications
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Mechanical Engineering or Mechatronics
- Strong mechanical design fundamentals: plastic injection-molded components, sheet metal and machined parts, fluid and pneumatic systems, or thermal and heating system integration.
- Proficiency with 3D CAD (CATIA, NX, Creo or SolidWorks).
- Familiarity with data acquisition tools.
- Inquisitive
- Hands-on experience troubleshooting mechanical and electrical failures.
- Basic understanding of Python or another scripting language.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams to drive new ideas and solutions into products.
- Experience with automotive thermal or glazings/closures/exteriors/ADAS
Bonus qualifications
- Experience with automotive sensors (camera, lidar) or optical sensor/ADAS systems.
- Experience with hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
- Fluid simulation and CFD for liquid or airflow analysis.
- Familiarity with automotive test standards such as FMVSS, ISO and IEC.
- Hands-on experience with thermocouples, strain gauges, pressure transducers and accelerometers.
- Able to use CAN tools (PCAN, Vector) to troubleshoot vehicle faults.
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