Lead Zoox’s technical strategy for prognostics across vehicle systems, with a focus on reducing in-service failures and improving fleet availability
Identify and prioritize the failure modes where prognostics can create meaningful operational value, based on failure behavior, detectability, warning horizon, and serviceability
Develop and manage prognostics concepts, methodologies, and technical requirements for monitoring degradation, predicting remaining useful life, and detecting pre-failure behavior in fielded systems
Partner with reliability, design engineering, service, firmware/software, and data teams to define the signals, features, infrastructure, and product changes needed to enable effective prognostics
Work with Design Reliability and Field Reliability to translate field performance, repair history, usage patterns, and failure analysis into monitor strategies and deployable health indicators
Guide the development, validation, and tuning of prognostic models and health monitoring algorithms using field and test data
Establish technical frameworks for evaluating prognostic performance, including sensitivity, false positive burden, lead time, robustness, and operational usefulness
Drive tradeoff decisions between prognostics, diagnostics, inspection intervals, and design improvement based on risk, cost, and implementation practicality
Help build the data and analysis architecture needed to support prognostics at scale, including data quality requirements, feature generation, monitor traceability, and performance feedback loops
Partner with service operations to ensure prognostics outputs translate into actionable maintenance decisions, clear workflows, and measurable business value
Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the prognostics workstream, raising the bar on methods, rigor, and cross-functional execution
Communicate recommendations, risks, and roadmap priorities clearly to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders

Requirements

Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field
8+ years of experience in prognostics, health monitoring, reliability engineering, condition-based maintenance, or closely related domains
Strong understanding of failure modes, degradation behavior, reliability fundamentals, and the practical challenges of predicting failure in complex systems
Experience developing or deploying prognostic, anomaly detection, or health monitoring methods for real-world hardware systems
Experience working with field data, sensor data, maintenance data, and failure analysis to drive engineering decisions
Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including experience with statistical modeling, degradation analysis, or machine learning approaches relevant to health monitoring
Proficiency in Python or similar technical computing tools for analysis, prototyping, and model development
Demonstrated ability to lead technically across functions and influence teams without direct authority
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical topics in an actionable way.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

prognosticshealth monitoringreliability engineeringcondition-based maintenancestatistical modelingdegradation analysismachine learninganomaly detectionPythondata analysis

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentorshipcommunicationanalytical skillsquantitative skillscross-functional collaborationinfluence without authorityproblem-solvingdecision-makingworkflow management