Senior Software Engineer, Zoox
Core Data Science
$192-273k
+ Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) + Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
Office located in Foster City, CA
Autonomous vehicle technology
Job no longer available
Autonomous vehicle technology
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$192-273k
+ Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) + 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
- You are a good fit for our team if you are a software engineer with a propensity for big data analysis, or a data engineer / scientist with an understanding of and enthusiasm for sound software engineering practices
- Extensive experience with large-scale data processing frameworks, with preference for Spark or Hadoop
- Software development experience in a production environment, with preference for Scala, Python, or Java; or demonstrated experience learning new programming languages
- Familiarity with any version control system, with preference for GitExperience designing metrics and building mechanisms that deliver robust, actionable insights
- Good communication and collaboration skills
Desirable
- Experience training and deploying ML models to large scale production use cases
- Basic familiarity with C++
- Experience with geospatial data analysisFamiliarity with or exposure to experimentation platforms
- Basic familiarity with any autonomous vehicle competency, e.g. perception, localization, prediction, planning, or controls
What the job involves
- The Core Data Science team owns a suite of products that provide actionable insights to the on-vehicle software teams
- In particular, our scenario search tools are used by teams developing and validating Zoox’s on-vehicle AI stack to estimate and analyze event rates at scale, enabling the launch of an autonomous mobility service
- Our team also works closely with dedicated Data Science teams to develop key driving behavior metrics and direct new feature development, using large scale data from our autonomous driving fleet and simulations
- Collaborate with our software and systems engineering teams to build and support core scenario search capabilities for Zoox
- Work alongside our data engineering and data science teams to develop and use robust large scale data solutions
- Identify key areas of investment for our vehicle software teams
- Establish best practices and processes around data-driven decision-making
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, is building a Zoox factory and budgeting $1 billion per year for future development and production.
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, not founder)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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