Staff Software Engineer, Zoox
Full Stack, Visualization Tools
$210-289k
Offers Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and 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
$210-289k
Offers Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and 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
- 8+ years of experience building production-grade software, including large-scale frontend or full-stack systems
- Deep expertise in modern web technologies (TypeScript, WebGL, Three.js or similar)
- Proven track record of leading complex projects and mentoring engineers
- Passion for creating intuitive, performant user experiences for technical users
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Desirable
- Experience working with 3D visualization, mapping, robotics, or AV-specific tools like rviz/webviz
- Familiarity with real-time data streaming, video/audio processing, or large-scale data pipelines
- Contributions to open-source developer tools or visualization libraries
What the job involves
- The Robot Data Visualization team is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the team behind one of the most critical internal tools at Zoox - a powerful, web-based application used to visualize and analyze data from our autonomous vehicles
- Our tool helps engineers dive deep into how the vehicle perceives, plans, and acts in the world, and it's used across nearly every discipline at Zoox
- As a Staff Engineer, you’ll lead technical direction, drive performance and scalability improvements, and help shape the future of how we debug and understand autonomous systems
- Lead architectural decisions and implementation of new features in a high-impact, data-heavy web application
- Build rich, real-time visualizations including 3D scenes, maps, video streams, and charts
- Collaborate with autonomy, perception, and systems engineers to deeply understand user workflows and translate them into intuitive tools
- Tackle performance, reliability, and UX challenges at scale
- Mentor engineers and help shape a strong engineering culture focused on excellence and impact
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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