Software Engineer, Zoox

Simulaton Scenario Automation

$160-225k

+ Amazon Restricted Stock Units + Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights

React
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Kotlin
C++
Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Foster City, CA

Zoox

Autonomous vehicle technology

Be an early applicant

Zoox

Autonomous vehicle technology

1001+ employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceCarsTransportElectric VehiclesAutomation

Be an early applicant

$160-225k

+ Amazon Restricted Stock Units + Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights

React
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Kotlin
C++
Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Foster City, CA

1001+ employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceCarsTransportElectric VehiclesAutomation

Company mission

To reimagine transportation from the ground up.

Role

Who you are

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant field
  • Expertise with large-scale Python projects
  • Great communication, cross-team collaboration skills, ability to work independently: self-motivated, inventive, organized and efficient
  • Background in machine learning, statistics, or data visualization
  • 5+ years’ experience in a related field

Desirable

  • Experience with data science, data analytics, or interface design
  • Experience in motion planning, traffic simulation, or other spatial problem-solving domains
  • Professional experience working in C++. Familiarity with React, Kotlin, TypeScript or JavaScript

What the job involves

  • We are looking for engineers with strong coding skills and exceptional design and implementation skills at the system and component level
  • You will be helping create scenario generation tools that blur the line between real and synthetic, closing the gap between real driving and hand-authored scenarios
  • Together, we’ll build a highly-scalable automated architecture used by mission assurance and autonomy engineers to continuously improve the safety and reliability of our robots
  • Develop platform for large scale generation and analysis of autonomous driving scenarios for simulation
  • Collaborate on the design and implementation of our simulation-based safety validation and analysis pipeline
  • Work closely with various teams across the company, like Simulation, AI software, QA, and Validation, to realize Zoox’s ambitious autonomous driving goals

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.

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Insights

Led by a woman
Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

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 values

  • WE'RE DOING ONE THING THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING: Safer, cleaner, more enjoyable mobility—for everyone. One product and one mission, bringing us together and driving us forward.
  • IT’S BIGGER THAN ANY OF US: Collaboration isn’t just something we talk about. It’s the only way we get this done. It takes trust, humility, and openness. And it means we pull together like no other team
  • ONE ZOOX, ONE CREW: Zoox is an inclusive, diverse, supportive community. One where we celebrate together, face challenges together, and grow stronger together. And where we work hard to ensure no one is left out and everyone is part of the story.
  • EVERY DAY IS A MILESTONE: From each line of code to each mile on the road, everything we do is another step forward in our mission. We ask questions, tackle problems head-on, and celebrate the progress we’re making

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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