Fullstack Software Engineer, Zoox

Perception Tools

$160-256k

+ RSUs + Stock Appreciation Rights

SQL
React
Python
Django
Airflow
FastAPI
Senior 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

$160-256k

+ RSUs + Stock Appreciation Rights

SQL
React
Python
Django
Airflow
FastAPI
Senior 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

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering and front-end application development
  • Experience designing and building modern data-intensive applications such as dashboards for data warehouses that query and visualize data at a large scale
  • Experience with modern web frameworks (e.g. react, angular, vue), python API frameworks (e.g. FastAPI, Django), and writing high-quality backend Python code
  • Knowledge of SQL basics

Desirable

  • Experience in DevOps or MLOps tooling application development
  • Experience with Data Pipelines and orchestrators such as Airflow
  • Experience in ML-related development in the Autonomous Driving industry
  • Experience working with distributed data processing platforms such as Databricks

What the job involves

  • We are seeking a highly skilled software engineer to design and develop tools that support and facilitate AI model development for the Perception component of our autonomous driving stack
  • In this role, you will work closely with Machine Learning engineers, data scientists, and software engineers to build scalable and high-performance applications that enable ML engineers to efficiently curate and build model training datasets, as well as evaluate their models across petabytes of multimodal data
  • . You will be responsible for conducting the design and implementation of various MLOps applications and data processing systems, ensuring that they follow best practices to maximize the tooling efficiency and ML engineers’ productivity
  • Collaborate with ML engineers and data scientists to understand business requirements and design MLOps applications that facilitate effective data operations, reveal data insights, and boost engineers’ productivity in ML model training and validation
  • Develop the front end of the MLOps applications, for example, a Dataset Management platform that enables ML engineers to curate label data for model training. Another example is the Metrics platform that enables ML engineers to build their own metrics and dashboards to evaluate the performance of their models
  • Collaborate with backend engineers and data engineers to integrate seamlessly with data pipelines and workflows on top of modern data processing technologies such as Apache Spark and Airflow, to support the real-time processing and visualization of large-scale data
  • Monitor and optimize the performance of the tooling and applications to ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability, to support the development of mission-critical autonomous driving technology
  • Continuously define problems and opportunities to iterate the application with a visionary product roadmap that keeps stakeholders on the same page
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in MLOps and data visualization, specifically related to autonomous driving perception and machine learning

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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Insights

Led by a woman
Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

24% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Oct 2019

$200m

CONVERTIBLE

Jul 2018

$500m

SERIES B

Total funding: $1.2bn

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

Company values

  • WE'RE DOING ONE THING THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING: Safer, cleaner, more enjoyable mobility—for everyone. One product and one mission, bringing us together and driving us forward.
  • IT’S BIGGER THAN ANY OF US: Collaboration isn’t just something we talk about. It’s the only way we get this done. It takes trust, humility, and openness. And it means we pull together like no other team
  • ONE ZOOX, ONE CREW: Zoox is an inclusive, diverse, supportive community. One where we celebrate together, face challenges together, and grow stronger together. And where we work hard to ensure no one is left out and everyone is part of the story.
  • EVERY DAY IS A MILESTONE: From each line of code to each mile on the road, everything we do is another step forward in our mission. We ask questions, tackle problems head-on, and celebrate the progress we’re making

Company HQ

Vintage Park, Foster City, CA

Founders

Aicha Evans

(CEO, not founder)

Having studied at the George Washington University, Aicha started her career with 2 years in Engineering at Skyworks before joining Intel, where she spent over 11 years. She left her role as Corporate Strategy Officer in February 2019 to join Zoox as CEO.

Jesse Levinson

(CTO)

Prior to co-founding Zoox, completed a Computer Science PhD at Stanford University. Also created Pro HDR, a million+ selling mobile photography app.

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