Zoox

Software Engineer - Core Middleware

Reposted 3 Days Ago

Foster City, CA

In-Office

175K-212K Annually

Mid level

Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Robotics • Software • Transportation • Design • Manufacturing

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 Software Engineer will design and develop middleware for autonomous vehicles, focusing on performance optimization and collaboration across teams to ensure code quality and functionality.

Summary Generated by Built In

Shipping the software that powers Zoox's revolutionary autonomous vehicles is an extremely challenging job. As a Software Engineer on the Robotics Middleware team, you will be pivotal in designing and developing the middleware framework for our autonomous vehicle software stack. This role contributes to the entire software organization by seeking opportunities to make our software and engineering teams more efficient and productive. You will regularly tackle complex, cross-functional challenges that impact multiple teams, helping to ensure our stack remains robust, scalable, and safety-critical. This role demands strong expertise in real-time computing, cross-platform development, and abstraction layer design. You’ll be responsible for contributing to performance optimization and ensuring efficient, modular, and maintainable code. Your deep debugging and problem-solving skills will support high-quality solutions across our middleware. This position requires strong teamwork to collaborate on technical decisions, foster cross-functional partnerships, and uphold engineering best practices. Your excellence in technical communication, paired with your ability to balance technical precision with practical delivery, will ensure impactful outcomes across Zoox's software organization.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the technical direction and architecture of our robotics middleware platform and the runtime control system
Develop and maintain platform-agnostic middleware components, including Robot state machine, software interfaces, task schedulers, data transport layers, diagnostic reporting, and message interfaces
Participate in design reviews and code reviews to maintain high code quality and share knowledge
Collaborate extensively with software teams across the organization to ensure the middleware meets all technical requirements
Participate in technical forums, contribute to technical documentation, and adhere to established best practices

Qualifications

3+ years of professional software development experience
Strong proficiency in modern C++ (C++14/17)
Strong background in developing scalable, distributed applications in Linux and the Nvidia Drive platform
Experience with GPU/CUDA programming
Experience with robotics frameworks/middleware (e.g., ROS/ROS2)

Bonus Qualifications

Experience with different processor architectures (e.g., X86, ARM)
Experience with AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code)
Proven experience in high-performance, distributed, and resource-constrained software systems

Top Skills

C++

Cuda

Gpu

Linux

Nvidia Drive

Ros

Ros2

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The Company

HQ: Foster City, CA

2,500 Employees

Year Founded: 2014

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.