Staff/Senior Staff Software Engineer, Zoox
Full Stack Operational Tools
$245-315k
+ Restricted Stock Units + Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
Office located in Foster City, CA
Autonomous vehicle technology
Open for applications
Autonomous vehicle technology
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$245-315k
+ Restricted Stock Units + 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
- 10+ YOE and Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in an engineering, mathematics, or related field
- Development experience with a modern web-based stack, distributed systems, modern cloud infrastructure, C++, and databases
- Demonstrated technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, set direction, make effective short/long-term tradeoffs, and iterate on solutions
- Experience with system design and building products from scratch
Desirable
- Advanced degree or certification
- Experience operating mission critical APIs and services at scale
- People management experience
What the job involves
- Zoox is looking for a Technical Lead to found a new team chartered with developing a powerful platform and corresponding infrastructure to enable cross-organizational collaboration for our highly dynamic operations roles
- As the founder of the team, you will take this initiative from 0 to 1
- Your contributions will have immediate, outsized impact by virtue of immediately delivering value to our entire suite of tooling, rather than individual products
- Your work will form the foundation on which all our tools will build and is critical to our transition to operational maturity
- Make no mistake: this role is big
- You’ll work across teams, encounter new technologies nearly daily, need to devise big, complex architectures, and be fearless in driving high impact changes for Zoox
- Own core technologies that are used across multiple teams, ensuring that they are reliable, available, performant and effective
- Collaborate extensively with partner teams, and cross-functional partners to evolve these investments over time to address newfound needs and enhance their functionality
- Architect highly scalable and reliable systems
- Anticipate future needs and drive a roadmap to ensure we’re delivering on Zoox’s future needs as well as our needs today
- Drive strategic investments to solve immediate, acute problems such as delivering distributed simulation for software validation and realizing step function improvements in operational efficiency
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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