The SW HIL (hardware in the loop) team ensures that the testing environment for the system and subsystem improves in uptime, reliability, and feature set. To aid the adoption of our testing framework for use by other teams, the SW HIL team collaborates in test development and maintains key tests that exercise the functionality of the testing framework.
We are seeking a highly motivated, energetic, self-starting Platform Engineer to join our Systems Reliability and Stability team. This position will be responsible for ensuring the upkeep, design, and maintenance of various engineering services. You will oversee and collaborate with other teams to ensure the high uptime of our robot testing platforms while measuring and improving their stability, accuracy, and usability.
In this role you will:
Responsible for measuring and maintaining the uptime of various services critical to the development of autonomous vehicles, such as testing and validation of on-vehicle software for hardware platforms.
Involved with all phases of rolling out various services; from design, deployment, operations, support, automation, and continuous improvement
Work with systems handling large volumes of data and data processing pipelines while performing compute-intensive tasks on CPUs and GPUs
Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, or related field
5+ years supporting in-production services, on-call rotations, and SRE responsibilities
Proficient in Python or Golang
Experience building and managing infrastructure services
Experience writing code for system-level automation, building resilient infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines
Experience building observability stack, instrumentation, open-telemetry, grafana dashboards
Built software services, wrote APIs for backend services, owned and managed full-stack applications
Bonus Qualifications
Linux system administration experience, troubleshooting kernel issues, device driver development
Experience with continuous deployment tools, release management responsibilities
Experience with CI toolchains such as Buildkite, Bazel, and test frameworks such as Pytest
Experience writing and managing infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Salt
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, or related field
- 5+ years supporting in-production services, on-call rotations, and SRE responsibilities
- Proficient in Python or Golang
- Experience building and managing infrastructure services
- Experience writing code for system-level automation, building resilient infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines
- Experience building observability stack, instrumentation, OpenTelemetry, Grafana dashboards
- Built software services, wrote APIs for backend services, owned and managed full-stack applications
- Work with systems handling large volumes of data and data processing pipelines and compute-intensive tasks on CPUs and GPUs
- Linux system administration, troubleshooting kernel issues, device driver development
- Continuous deployment, release management experience
- Experience with CI toolchains such as Buildkite, Bazel, and test frameworks such as Pytest
- Experience writing and managing infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Salt
Zoox Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Zoox and has not been reviewed or approved by Zoox.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is extensive, with broad medical and vision options, company‑paid disability coverage, and multiple mental‑health resources. Feedback suggests coverage breadth and auxiliary programs support a wide range of needs.
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Parental & Family Support — Family supports include paid parental leave, additional pregnancy disability time, fertility coverage, and adoption/surrogacy assistance. Backup care and family‑oriented programs further reinforce support across life stages.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Day‑to‑day perks are robust, including free daily meals, fitness subsidies, commuter support, and on‑site amenities. Feedback suggests these lifestyle benefits enhance convenience and workplace experience, especially for office‑based roles.
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What We Do
Zoox is an autonomous mobility company that was founded to provide a safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable future on the road. To achieve that goal, the company has spent the past 10 years creating a purpose-built robotaxi that gives the world a better way to ride.
Why Work With Us
At Zoox, we are working to solve one of the greatest technological challenges of our generation. From the beginning, we have been focused on our goal of reimagining transportation from the ground up. We are a mission-driven community of innovators working together to create a safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable future on the road.
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