Manufacturing Diagnostics Engineer
Zoox
Hayward, CA, USA
Posted on Nov 7, 2025
As a Manufacturing Diagnostics Engineer, you will be a part of the team that executes processes to bring up, validate, test, and troubleshoot the Zoox vehicle, as well as implement diagnostic systems/infrastructure. You will develop and improve our processes for testing the electrical and firmware systems of a vehicle to perform the End-of-Line diagnostics in the manufacturing process.
In this role, you will:
- Serve as the first line of defense for all electrical and functional issues on the manufacturing line, including but not limited to software/firmware, harness, networking (CAN, LIN, Automotive, and Standard Ethernet, GMSL, etc.), hardware, and infrastructure issues.
- Validate vehicle behavior, triage issues, identify root causes, and lead resolutions (pertaining to software, tooling, deploy, harness, hardware, etc.) during vehicle manufacturing testing, bring-up, firmware updates, and calibration.
- Work closely with multidisciplinary engineers to collect and interpret the component and vehicle-level requirements and translate them into scalable system-level validation test scripts and test cases
- Develop the system for automatic troubleshooting and workaround guidance for operators on the Manufacturing line
- Build test plans and test coverage for vehicle production, incorporating vehicle behaviors, functionalities, and manufacturing cycle times
- Design and implement future manufacturing lines involving the next-generation diagnostic architecture to support higher volume production
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant area such as Electrical Engineering or Computer Science.
- Very strong troubleshooting and debugging skills and experience, including reading, troubleshooting, and injecting packets over various network protocols such as CAN, LIN, and Ethernet
- 2+ years of experience with automotive controller integration testing or test script development/programming in high-level languages such as Python
- Experience with GitHub or similar tools for software management
- Strong background in Linux and shell/bash terminal scripting
Bonus Qualifications
- Master’s degree in a relevant area such as Computer Science or Engineering
- Experience with the integration and automation of manufacturing and test equipment
- Background in creating, reading, and writing to tables in an SQL database
- Experience with computer network engineering, TCP / IP protocols, and communication over API