# Senior Mechanical Engineer - Closures

Zoox is developing fully autonomous vehicles and the supporting ecosystem required to bring the technology to market at scale. Sitting at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and design, Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobility-as-a-service in urban environments. We believe the transition to self-driving vehicles requires a combination of elegant vision and uncompromising execution. As a Staff Closures Engineer, you will own the closures architecture for the vehicle. You will be the subject matter expert for how doors, latches, hinges, actuators, seals, and glazing behave as a system, how that system interacts with the rest of the vehicle, and where the interdependencies between it and body, EE, firmware, manufacturing, and service will surface later in the program. This is a hands-on architecture role, not a detached one: alongside setting system direction, you will personally own a set of the most difficult parts in the system and take them from concept through sourcing, validation, and launch. Our closures are unlike conventional vehicles. They are fully automated, operate at a duty cycle closer to transit than to passenger cars, carry sensor and compute i

- **Id**: 1129399
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zoox-seniorstaff-closures-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Foster City, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-22T22:08:49Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T15:41:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 47
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5219
- **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**: 85
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 195000
- **Max**: 256000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 256000

## Technologies

- **CATIA** — Optional: no
- **FMEA** — Optional: no
- **GD&T** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Simulink** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 47

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-23T00:47:34Z

## 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**: 46
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 0.72
- **Age days**: 47
- **Expected fill days**: 85
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:mid, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 256000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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