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. As part of the Release Management team at Zoox, you will own all aspects of the software release process and help accelerate our product development by leading various weekly / fortnightly / monthly releases focused on ensuring we are shipping the safest and most reliable software possible.
As developers build new features, the release management team will be responsible for tracking and knowing the content of each release, updating testing strategies, measuring system performance, and escalating issues seen during on-vehicle and offline testing. These efforts are critical to maintaining our code quality and ensuring our service capabilities are operating as intended. You will coordinate with cross-divisional teams to accelerate releases, increase the quality of our autonomous driving products, and optimize resource efficiency. Your ability to understand the overall system design and component interaction to help guide test methodology for functional and safety sign-off is crucial to the overall success of the release team. Accountability and integrity are core to Zoox teams.
In this role, you will:
Work with all stakeholders in Development, QA, and vehicle operations to assemble cross-organizational project teams, tracking progress and delivering towards release milestones
Multiply the impact of release teams across Zoox by turning what works into shared tooling and practices, accelerating how quickly software reaches the fleet
Track results of all required tests, analyze release blockers, and enable successful resolution
Coordinate release readiness across integration, QA, and component teams, tracking readiness indicators and securing the approvals that confirm each release is production-ready including hands-on experience enforcing SLAs for release blockers, and driving fast mitigation strategies.
Build and scale automation that removes manual release work, from branch management and merge workflows to release visibility and metrics.
Qualifications:
Bachelor degree with 3-5 years of experience in release engineering, build engineering, or release management for large, complex software products.
Proficiency with Git, including branch management and conflict resolution and experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines (with tools such as Buildkite, Jenkins, or Bamboo)
Excellent communication (Written and Verbal) and organizational skills
Programming experience in Python or another scripting language, including automating release or build workflows.
Excellent communication skills and ability to quickly adapt to changes
Bonus Qualifications:
Experience with developing automated functional test software on Hardware-in-the-Loop infrastructure.
Experience managing release pipelines that combine simulation regression testing with physical hardware.
Skills Required
- 3-5+ years of experience working with large, complex products
- Extensive knowledge of git and command line
- Excellent written and verbal communication and organizational skills
- Experience in defining release readiness criteria and ensuring changes meet criteria prior to deployment
- Automated manual release processes using Python or another programming language and AI tools
- Experience with CI build systems and ability to triage failures
- Experience with large process improvement and/or automation projects
- Broad understanding of programming structure and compilation process; multi-platform (Unix, Windows) build environments
- Fluency in a programming language and familiarity with AI tools (Cursor, Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.)
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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