Senior Data Engineer, Zoox
Enterprise, Data & AI
$206-247k
+ RSUs
Office located in Foster City, CA
Autonomous vehicle technology
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Autonomous vehicle technology
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$206-247k
+ RSUs
Office located in Foster City, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To reimagine transportation from the ground up.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years in Data Engineering, with extensive hands-on experience building production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines using Python, SQL and modern orchestration frameworks (e.g. Airflow, Lakeflow, Argo)
- Proven ability to work with large-scale enterprise platforms (SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce, Workday, etc.) and understanding the nuances of their respective APIs and data models
- Demonstrated experience in building "self-healing" systems, implementing circuit breakers, automated retry logic and robust error-handling & monitoring mechanisms
- Ability to design scalable, modular architectures that abstract the complexity of disparate enterprise systems into clean, usable data models
- A "builder" mentality with a track record of driving complex infrastructure projects from architecture to production in fast-paced, high-stakes environments. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, AI & Analytics engineers
Desirable
- Experience using LLMs to automate data reconciliation, anomaly detection or root-cause analysis within data pipelines
- Familiarity with cloud-native data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks)
- Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes or serverless compute to deploy and manage elastic, resilient data processing infrastructure
- Experience with Databricks Serverless, Managed tables, Zerobus and Variant
What the job involves
- Zoox is seeking a highly motivated, hands-on Data Engineer to build the next generation of autonomous, self-healing data pipelines
- You will be the primary responsible for building the framework to integrate complex, mission-critical enterprise sources including SAP (S/4HANA, Ariba, BRIM, ME) across Procurement, Supply Chain, Legal, Finance, HR and Marketing into a unified data fabric
- This is a highly technical role for an engineer who thrives on building resilient, automated systems that ensure high-fidelity data is always available for our AI agents and Analytics workflows
- Design and deploy self-healing data ingestion pipelines that automatically detect anomalies, perform schema evolution, and recover from failures without manual intervention
- Build robust integration layers for diverse ecosystems, specifically focusing on SAP (S/4HANA, Ariba, BRIM, ME), Workday, Lever, Anaplan and Salesforce CRM
- Develop comprehensive telemetry and automated remediation strategies to monitor data quality, latency and pipeline health in near real time
- Ensure that data is cleaned, structured, and served in an "AI-ready" format, enabling our AI agents to query and interact with enterprise data reliably
- Modernize our data architecture to handle high-volume, cross-functional data synchronization while maintaining strict security, compliance, and governance standards
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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