Mechanical Engineer

Role: CAE Contract Engineer - Strength and Durability
Area: Vehicle Integration Attributes
The Role
The Zoox vehicle needs to operate reliably around the clock within a constantly expanding operational
area, carrying a variety of users and payload, and being subjected to all that the environment and the
users can throw at it. This creates a unique challenge for the Strength and Durability attribute team.
Your role will be to support design engineers in ensuring their systems will operate safely and reliably
throughout the life of the vehicle. You will use the most appropriate methods, from hand calculations
and FE analysis to component, system, and vehicle testing to support system development. Within high
pace program cycles, you will work jointly with design and test engineers to develop practicable
structural design solutions meeting attribute requirements. You will continuously develop and improve
CAE working practices, leading long term methods projects alongside day-to-day activities.
What you'll do
• Analyze strength and fatigue performance of mechanical systems from component to full
vehicle level under static and dynamic loading.
• Develop feasible structural solutions meeting real world strength and durability requirements.
• Develop and improve working methods in the CAE team and across the vehicle engineering.
• Report and communicate results at all levels including during cross-functional reviews.
• Champion structural solutions which serve Strength and Durability attribute performance and
coordinate with other attributes for best overall performance.
• Location: Foster City (California)
What you'll need
• Masters degree in mechanical / aerospace / motorsport engineering
• Proven experience of delivering real world structural performance development using
simulation, testing and first principle methods.
• Routine use of simple and advanced hand calculations for concept and detail studies.
• Expertise in the use of Implicit FE solvers (Optistruct/Nastran/Abaqus).
• Expertise in fatigue calculations using SN and EN methods (Ncode/other tools).
• Vibration analysis and testing experience for deterministic and random excitations.
• Proficient with statistical analysis applied to the creation of material allowable properties based
on large sample test data.
• Working understanding of road load data collection and accelerated duty cycle creation with
equivalent damage method.
• Rigorous approach to engineering problems, ensuring consistency and traceability of results.
• Experience of multi scale FE model correlation.