CAE Engineer - Safety occupant
Foster City · USD 195,000-234,000 / year · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 6, 2026
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Foster City
- Salary
- USD 195,000-234,000 / year
About the role
- The CAE Engineer - Safety Occupant will work with a multidisciplinary team to deliver vehicle safety performance for fully autonomous vehicles.
- This role involves performing occupant safety simulation activities through virtual and physical development phases to achieve sign-off and certification.
- The engineer will provide clear inputs to the safety attribute team to ensure all vehicle safety targets are met.
Responsibilities
- Support vehicle level safety targets to support the Zoox safety strategy
- Take ownership of the occupant safety CAE and support balancing with other Vehicle Integration Attributes
- Set up vehicle, dummy, and restraint models and coordinate model build
- Support the correlation of virtual and physical data
- Support overall vehicle structural analysis with respect to various attributes
- Support virtual DVPs and execute accordingly
- Suggest countermeasure design solutions
- Generate virtual analysis engineering reports
- Support report outs at project gateways
- Lead small teams and weekly cadence meetings
Requirements
- Masters degree in mechanical engineering or a related field
- Experience with FMVSS, USNCAP, IIHS, ECE, EU legal and consumer safety protocols
- Extensive experience in virtual development in occupant safety CAE using LS-dyna
- Extensive experience in software tools including BetaCAE, Oasys, LS-Dyna, FE dummies, and LS-Opt
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Experience with basic Python coding
Workplace
- Role is based in Foster City.
Skills
- LS-dyna
- BetaCAE
- Oasys
- LS-Opt
- FE Dummies
- Python
