# Mechanical Engineer - Sensor Cleaning

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: Design and development 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. Validation and testing Collaborate with our validation team on test plans, test fixtures design, and testing failure analysis. Support wind tunnel and fleet testing of sensor cleaning function

- **Id**: 4211949
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zoox-mechanical-engineer-sensor-cleaning>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Foster City, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T00:49:42Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T01:17:23Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2583
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Autonomous Driving, Smart Mobility, Automotive Manufacturing, Ride Hailing

## Company

- **Id**: 3626
- **Name**: Zoox
- **Domain**: zoox.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zoox>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 72
- **Open postings**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.925
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 87
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 157000
- **Max**: 216000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 216000

## Technologies

- **CATIA** — Optional: no
- **FMEA** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SolidWorks** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T01:17:23Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 373 · green card filings: 120; Filings 12m: 373

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 87
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T02:38:31Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 216000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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