Senior Software Engineer, Zoox
Data Performance & Stability
$208-300k
+ Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
Autonomous vehicle technology
Open for applications
Autonomous vehicle technology
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$208-300k
+ Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
1001+ employees
Company mission
To reimagine transportation from the ground up.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of professional experience in software development or related fields and BS in computer science or related field
- Proficient with building data pipelines that ingest very large amounts of data from vehicles and structure it in ways that is quick and easy to execute queries on
- Strong knowledge of Python & SQL and continuous integration systems (Github/Gitlab CI, Jenkins, etc)
- Savvy with efficient queries on data platforms such as DataBricks, Looker, and with ETL pipelines
- Solid statistical inference skills, with the ability to communicate uncertainty appropriately to engineering and business stakeholders
Desirable
- Familiarity with Git and Bazel
- Proficiency with LLMs and agentic AI for process automation
- Experience with large-scale vehicle or device health telemetry
What the job involves
- The Software Performance team’s mission is to analyze, optimize and provide guidance to the software and hardware teams in order to meet expected system performance and software stability targets
- As an automation engineer within the Software Performance team, you will create automated monitoring and analysis for performance tooling into the software release process to identify fleet-wide trends or anomalies and put detailed performance data at the fingertips of performance experts for quick and efficient investigations
- Automate common workflows & processes for performance data storage and analysis
- Contribute to new data products to enable Engineering and Operations teams to gain access to insights from our varied and complex autonomous vehicle fleet dataset
- Make data more accessible to the rest of the software organization to get insights into stability and performance issues via standardized queries, dashboards, and automated alerts
- Create custom data queries on a large pool of dense performance metrics and build automation flows to extract relevant log segments for efficient triage & investigation
- Work cross-functionally to create automatic detection of anomalies in performance or stability metrics across the fleet and devise automatic triage pipelines to steer them to the best owners
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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