Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Planner Frameworks Pipeline

Zoox

Senior Software Engineer working on large-scale simulation pipelines for Zoox's self-driving vehicle validation. Focus on improving reliability and performance while collaborating with autonomy engineers.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeFoster City • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $219,000 - $315,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Improve the cost efficiency, reliability, and performance of our validation and simulation pipelines
Create production-grade APIs, SDKs, and tools to enable a varied set of validations of autonomous behaviors
Improve the ML training pipelines supporting the autonomous behavior org

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 8+ years of industry experience
Experience optimizing large-scale distributed systems for cost and efficiency
Experience with AWS or similar providers
Proficiency with Python and familiarity with C++

Benefits

Comp & perks

paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
unpaid time off
Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
Amazon RSUs
health insurance
long-term care insurance
long-term and short-term disability insurance
life insurance

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonC++API developmentSDK developmentML training pipelinescost optimizationdistributed systemsvalidation pipelinessimulation pipelines

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science