Manager for Simulation Agents, Zoox

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field
• Domain experience developing software with motion planning, path finding, or traffic simulation
• Strong programming skills in C++
• 3D math skills, including trigonometry and linear algebra
• 3+ years of engineering management experience, preferably in a fast-paced, innovative environment

Desirable

• Simulation is essential to Zoox’s mission. Zoox uses simulation to develop our driving software, validate safety, and analyze our real-world performance. Our team’s work directly impacts how rapidly and successfully Zoox will achieve its goals
• For our simulators to successfully validate our autonomous driving stack, we need to realistically model and replicate the worlds we will be driving in. This includes modeling and simulating a wide variety of realistic behaviors for vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians
• As a Manager you will be leading and managing a team of engineers focusing on our Agent Behaviors
• This team specifically solves the challenge of simulating realistic vehicle and pedestrian traffic. It is critical to replicate a wide range of behaviors that we encounter while driving in real cities
• Lead a team developing the state of the art in traffic and behavior modeling to capture real-world behaviors for simulated cars, pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists, and other moving entities that populate our simulated worlds
• Manage a team of 5+ world class engineers, inspiring them and supporting their career growth
• Build technical roadmaps that meet product requirements and lead work on the team towards those goals
• Leverage technical expertise to communicate with engineering leads, assessing technical trade-offs and their impacts on project scope, risk, and timelines to meet product goals
• Develop processes that promote organizational efficiencies, and improve speed of alignment, decision-making, and execution

• 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

Total funding: $1.2bn

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.