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Zoox is an autonomous mobility company that’s created a purpose-built robotaxi to give the world a better way to ride.
The Role
The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop tools for safety-critical software, maintain internal tools, and collaborate cross-functionally on autonomous vehicle software development.
Summary Generated by Built In
The Software Systems Infrastructure team is responsible for aiding the Software Systems organization with all its internal tooling needs, development processes and ensuring that all robot software meets a high bar for safety and stability in production vehicles. We are a high-paced software engineering team.
In this role, you will help establish infrastructure, design and develop software tools that will automate, track or audit processes and methods needed to build safety-critical software that will revolutionize transportation in the 21st century. Borrowing principles from avionics, automotive, and other safety-critical industries, you will work with software, systems and firmware engineers across the Zoox software organization, ranging from state-of-the-art AI Perception, all the way to highly-critical RTOS and middleware components.
You will work on exciting projects like building tools to compute code coverage for large monorepos, integrate third-party static analysis tools like Coverity, Parasoft, and dynamic analysis tools pytest-cov, build CI infrastructure to gate poor-quality code, and more.
In this role you will:
- Design and develop tools and infrastructure to help software teams build, track, and maintain safety-critical code, primarily using Bazel, Python, and backend technologies (e.g., databases, web servers).
- Interface with C++ and Python codebases while integrating third-party static/dynamic analyzers and code quality tools into Zoox's ecosystem.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with application, infrastructure, and safety teams to gather requirements and ensure alignment with high-assurance development practices.
- Maintain and troubleshoot internal tools, while also writing quick automation scripts (e.g., for metrics, traceability) to streamline workflows.
- Embrace an experimental, fail-fast mindset while tackling the unique challenges of building complex, safety-critical software for autonomous vehicles.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in an computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related field
- 10+ years of industry experience working on large code bases
- Strong proficiency in working with build infrastructure such as Bazel or Buck
- Strong proficiency in Python and one or more of its frameworks
- Strong proficiency in scripting using shell, Python, etc
- Experience with sql/nosql databases like Postgres, MongoDb, etc
- Experience with Linux and systems programming
- Experience with build systems, version control, and testing methodologies
Bonus Qualifications:
- Master’s or Phd in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related field with a research background
- Robotics, Automotive or Aerospace software experience
- Familiarity with Static and Dynamic Analysis Tools - such as Coverity, Parasoft, etc
- Experience with safety-critical systems
Top Skills
Bazel
Linux
MongoDB
NoSQL
Postgres
Python
Shell
SQL
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The Company
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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