Staff/Senior Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, Zoox
$285-350k
+ Amazon Restricted Stock Units & Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
Office located in Foster City, CA
Autonomous vehicle technology
Be an early applicant
Autonomous vehicle technology
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$285-350k
+ Amazon Restricted Stock Units & Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
Office located in Foster City, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To reimagine transportation from the ground up.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering, mathematics, or related field
- 10+ years of industry experience building and operating production fullstack systems on large code bases
- Strong proficiency in fullstack development: Python backend services (FastAPI/Flask/Django or similar), React with TypeScript/JavaScript (ideally for data-heavy or visualization-intensive UIs), relational databases, async/task-queue architectures, and scripting/automation (Python, shell)
- Experience with Linux, cloud infrastructure (AWS or similar), containerized deployment, build systems, version control, testing methodologies, and CI/CD
- Demonstrated technical leadership: driving multi-quarter projects, setting architectural direction, and mentoring engineers
- You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position
Desirable
- Experience with geospatial systems: PostGIS, GDAL/Shapely/Turf, map rendering libraries (deck.gl, Mapbox GL, Leaflet), or road-network/graph data models and building map-based web applications or GIS tooling with safety-critical systems
- Robotics, automotive, or aerospace software experience
- Familiarity with ML-assisted data pipelines (e.g., VLM-based annotation or labeling workflows)
What the job involves
- The Software Systems Infrastructure team is responsible for aiding the Software Systems organization with all its internal tooling needs, development processes and ensuring that all safety-critical software meets a high safety bar for production vehicles
- We are a fullstack, high-paced software engineering team
- In this role, you will be a technical lead for a tool called Geofencer - Zoox's geospatial platform for defining where and how our autonomous vehicles operate
- Geofencer is the system of record for geofences, road-network annotations, pickup/dropoff zones, and released Plans of Record that flow directly to the fleet — making it one of the highest-leverage tools at the company: a change made in this application changes where robotaxis drive in the real world
- You will own architecture and delivery across the full stack, from an interactive map-editing frontend to geospatial backend services and release pipelines, working closely with mapping, autonomy, operations, and safety teams
- As a team lead, you'll take technical ownership for the whole system including delivery of features, set technical direction, drive quality and correctness in a safety-critical domain, and mentor engineers across the team
- Lead the design and development of Geofencer across the stack: a React/TypeScript single-page application with rich interactive map editing (deck.gl, Mapbox), and Python backend services (FastAPI, SQLAlchemy/GeoAlchemy2, Celery) on PostgreSQL/PostGIS
- Own core geospatial data workflows: versioned geofence editing, road-network annotation, drivable-area computation and connectivity validation, and the Plan of Record release process that publishes operational constraints to the fleet
- Integrate with the broader Zoox ecosystem: the Zoox Road Network (ZRN) map graph, S3 artifact pipelines, downstream fleet and mission systems, and ML-assisted annotation workflows
- Operate production infrastructure: Bazel builds, Docker/Kubernetes deployment, observability (Grafana, Sentry, OpenTelemetry), and CI/CD and whip up quick scripts and tools to automate tasks — data migrations, bulk annotation operations, metrics generation
- Drive cross-functional alignment with operations, mapping, and autonomy stakeholders; translate ambiguous operational needs into scalable technical solutions; and mentor engineers on the team
Our take
Zoox, a self-driving vehicle company, was founded to make personal transportation safer and more enjoyable for all. It has aimed to achieve this goal by creating a new mode of driverless transportation, thus eradicating the safety and logistical issues that come with human drivers.
It revealed its custom vehicle design in December 2020, showcasing something different from just a car without a driver. Uniquely, all four wheels are independent of one another, and the vehicles have no front or back, making them more agile than a standard car. Zoox claims that it is different from other industry players because it has created an entire driverless ecosystem, including the vehicle itself, allowing it to have more control.
The company is fast becoming a major player in an industry that is predicted to be worth $2 trillion by 2030. Electric motors are highly desirable, particularly in an urban environment, as governments look for ways to reduce emissions and improve air quality. Zoox is aiming to play a vital role in this evolution towards more sustainable urban mobility. Amazon acquired the company in 2020 and, despite a general downturn in the sector through 2022, opened its first Zoox factory for robotaxis in 2025 and is testing the autonomous vehicles in multiple cities in the US.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2019
$200m
CONVERTIBLE
Jul 2018
$500m
SERIES B
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Affinity groups and sports clubs
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Our crew’s health and happiness is our first priority. We offer comprehensive health and mental health support, a wellbeing program, and unlimited and flexible paid time away
- We invest in our crew—and their families—for the long term. That includes generous family planning support, caregiver support, and strong cash compensation with great equity upside
- We look after our crew when they’re in the office too. Our famous food program is a great example, featuring a daily changing menu of local and sustainable dishes
- There’s a busy calendar of social events at Zoox, with more sports teams than you can count. And, of course, playing with robots is an important part of the job description
Company HQ
Vintage Park, Foster City, CA
Leadership
Aicha Evans
(CEO)Having studied at the George Washington University, Aicha started her career with 2 years in Engineering at Skyworks before joining Intel, where she spent over 11 years. She left her role as Corporate Strategy Officer in February 2019 to join Zoox as CEO.
Jesse Levinson
(CTO)Prior to co-founding Zoox, completed a Computer Science PhD at Stanford University. Also created Pro HDR, a million+ selling mobile photography app.
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