Software Engineer, Zoox
Software Systems Infrastructure
$160-256k
+ Equity
Office located in Foster City, CA
Autonomous vehicle technology
Job no longer available
Autonomous vehicle technology
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$160-256k
+ Equity
Office located in Foster City, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To reimagine transportation from the ground up.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, mathematics, or related field
- 5+ years of industry experience working on large code bases
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and one or more of the frontend frameworks/libraries like React/Vue.js/Angular
- Strong proficiency in SQL/NoSQL databases like Postgres, MongoDB, etc
- Strong proficiency in scripting using Python, shell, etc
- Experience with Linux and systems programming
- Experience with database, front-end, and back-end systems
- Experience with build systems, version control, and testing methodologies
Desirable
- Robotics, Automotive, or Aerospace software experience
- Familiarity with Static and Dynamic Analysis Tools - such as Coverity, Valgrind/Helgrind, CCM, etc
- Experience with safety-critical systems
- Familiarity with Systems Modelling Languages such as SysML or AADL
What the job involves
- The Software Systems Infrastructure team is responsible for aiding the Software Systems organization with all its internal tooling needs, and development processes and ensuring that all safety-critical software meets a high safety bar for production vehicles. We are a full-stack high-paced software engineering team
- In this role, you will help establish infrastructure, and design and develop software tools that will automate, track, or audit processes and methods needed to build safety-critical software that will revolutionize transportation in the 21st century
- Borrowing principles from avionics, automotive, and other safety-critical industries, you will work with software, systems, and firmware engineers across the Zoox software organization, ranging from state-of-the-art AI Perception, all the way to highly-critical RTOS and middleware components
- Develop infrastructure and tools to support the Software Systems org that can help enable software developers achieve, track and build safety-critical code
- Primarily develop in Bazel, Python, ReactJS and TypeScript and also be responsible for setting up backend infrastructure (database, web servers, etc.) and will be interfacing with software developed in C++ and Python
- Be comfortable to whip up quick scripts to automate tasks, such as generating metrics, establishing traceability, etc, when necessary
- You will be developing and maintaining tools that support cross-functional teams in their efforts towards developing software that adheres to a High Assurance Process
- Autonomous vehicles have some of the largest, most complex software ever shipped in a safety-critical environment; solving that problem is one of the most exciting technical challenges of our lifetime
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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