Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Zoox

Behavior Capabilities

$230-289k

+ Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs); + Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights

C++
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Foster City, CA

Zoox

Autonomous vehicle technology

Open for applications

Zoox

Autonomous vehicle technology

1001+ employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceCarsTransportElectric VehiclesAutomation

Open for applications

$230-289k

+ Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs); + Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights

C++
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Foster City, CA

1001+ employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceCarsTransportElectric VehiclesAutomation

Company mission

To reimagine transportation from the ground up.

Role

Who you are

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or related field and 7+ years of experience
  • Fluency in C++
  • Extensive experience with programming and algorithm design
  • Understanding of vehicle kinematics

Desirable

  • PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
  • Experience shipping products to market (commercial robotics, drones, consumer devices etc.)
  • Demonstrated ability to create real-time motion planning algorithms in a cross-functional team

What the job involves

  • The Behavior Capabilities opportunity falls within the Fail Operational Planning team at Zoox
  • This team works to ensure that the robot continues to operate effectively, even in the presence of minor compartmentalized failures or degraded capabilities
  • The focus of the team includes developing behavioral and motion planning algorithms to improve trip progress, vehicle uptime metrics, and correspondingly a better customer experience
  • This is a cutting-edge problem which requires teamwork and collaboration across a diverse group of experts including Planner, Perception, Prediction, Hardware, and more
  • On this team, you will contribute to the next generation of algorithmic advancements to expand our robot’s ability to drive in some of the most complex scenarios
  • We are looking for an engineer who is excited to understand the interdependencies within the driving stack and takes ownership of their projects and has a holistic product focused approach towards development
  • Create principled algorithmic improvements to specific areas of driving behavior and implement those changes in our code base
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to develop strategies and intelligent behaviors to mitigate the performance degradation under various failure modes of the system
  • Architect and implement scalable solutions ensuring seamless integration with the rest of the driving stack
  • Partner with validation teams to define and execute tests for developed algorithms

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Insights

Led by a woman
Top investors

24% employee growth in 12 months

Company

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

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Oct 2019

$200m

CONVERTIBLE

Jul 2018

$500m

SERIES B

Total funding: $1.2bn

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, is building a Zoox factory and budgeting $1 billion per year for future development and production.

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