Senior Software Systems Engineer, Zoox

• B.S./M.S./PhD in Engineering, Physics or relevant field and 7+ years of experience
• Strong experience in middleware, ideally in embedded or distributed systems
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate architectural and safety considerations into actionable engineering requirements
• Demonstrated ability to apply software engineering best practices
• Experience working in cross-functional environments involving platform, safety and software teams

Desirable

• This is an opportunity to join the Software Systems Engineering team to participate in building the Zoox robotaxi, the first in the world to operate on public roads
• The Software Systems Engineering team is responsible for defining SW development processes and ensuring that all safety-critical software meets a high safety bar for production vehicles
• In this role, you will help introduce and drive the adoption of software development best practices across middleware components, including requirements, architectural design, code quality, and testing strategy; contributing to defining diagnostics strategies and appropriate system reactions to ensure robust, safe, and maintainable operation
• Act as a cross-functional bridge between middleware developers, and safety teams to ensure aligned design decisions and requirements
• Develop and maintain a holistic architectural view of the middleware stack, including dependencies, interfaces and potential failure paths, for various compute platforms
• Help evolve and strengthen the middleware and diagnostics architecture by identifying improvement opportunities such as decoupling interdependent components, designing appropriate fault reactions, etc
• Define and implement component and system level diagnostics strategy, including fault detection, reporting, logging and traceability
• Analyze fault propagation scenarios across components and help design mitigations that improve system availability and safety
• Generate and track fault metrics on a regular cadence