Zoox says former Moog CTO, Gonzalo Rey has joined the company as vice president of System Design and Functional Safety.
Rey will oversee and develop specifications and validation protocols for the hardware and software systems to enable a fully autonomous vehicle.
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Rey joins Zoox after nearly 25 years in the aerospace industry. At Moog, he led a 1,200 person global engineering organisation developing flight control systems for the F-35, Boeing 787, 747-8, the Airbus A350 and several business aircraft during his tenure as director of Engineering for the Aircraft Group. As CTO he also oversaw research and development groups for robotics and autonomous systems.
"Gonzalo exemplifies precisely the calibre of leader we value at Zoox—creative, technical and fearless," said Zoox CEO, Tim Kentley-Clay. "Having risen to the top of Moog as CTO, Gonzalo has led large scale engineering programs with exacting functional safety requirements.
"Gonzalo is eminently qualified to join Zoox where he will oversee the specification and functional safety testing of our advanced mobility ecosystem."
Rey began his career as a staff engineer at the Moog Aircraft Group Technology Centre in 1991. In 2008, he became drector of Engineering and Technology for the Aircraft Group with development centres in the US, UK and India.
