Zoox

AI Engineer

• Run and maintain the benchmark pipeline, analyzing results to identify routing errors and regressions across agent variants
• Build and expand ground truth datasets used to evaluate agent outputs against known-correct answers
• Identify and address gaps in benchmark validation and support building a more comprehensive evaluation infrastructure to improve validation prior to release
• Develop new evaluation dimensions such as label accuracy and structured output correctness beyond the existing team classification benchmarks
• Investigate failure modes in agent outputs and work with engineers to surface actionable improvements
• Write scripts and tooling to automate data collection, result parsing, and metric reporting
• Document findings, track benchmark trends over time, and present results to the team

Part-Time Student Worker – AI Validation and Benchmarking Engineer

Procurement

• Lead procurement and partnership initiatives for vehicle direct materials (interiors, structural components, advanced hardware) and/or operations infrastructure (EV charging, vehicle maintenance, capital equipment)
• Proactively engage with Zoox stakeholders (incl. engineering, operations, manufacturing, strategy, finance, and design) to derive and execute the medium-term (3-5 years) business and technology roadmap to support Zoox’s vehicle development program and autonomous ride-hailing service
• Develop the supply chain and partnership footprint with a long-term, strategic view
• Lead the day-to-day process of ensuring successful partnerships (milestone adherence, change order management, quality assurance, cost control, etc.) and build supplier performance assessments to support future sourcing decisions
• Design, conduct, and synthesize supplier, industry, and market research
• Drive cost transparency and build total cost of ownership models to support sourcing decisions
• Ensure optimal contract coverage for the commodity/service in partnership with engineering and legal support
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with key suppliers as the lead point of contact for all commercial issues
• Review, analyze, and finalize quote packages from suppliers
• Support and inform internal stakeholders with respect to supplier selection and management
• Identify sourcing alternatives to drive efficiencies via benchmarking, competitive quotes, and changing requirements

Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager

Recruitment

• Create and execute Zoox’s end-to-end talent strategy, both proactive and reactive external recruiting, encompassing company-wide hiring, which includes the university program, internal mobility initiatives, and executive recruiting.
• Lead a high-performing cross-functional recruiting organization of at least 50+, fostering a culture of excellence and accountability through dedicated mentorship, coaching, and a focus on continuous operational improvement.
• Engineer scalable talent processes, from initial sourcing to offer delivery, ensuring seamless, consistent candidate experience across all organizational levels and recruitment stages.
• Establish a data-driven recruitment culture by architecting organization-wide reporting frameworks; translate complex talent metrics into high-impact narratives that empower executive leadership to optimize workforce planning and sourcing strategies.
• Partner with the Manager of HR Technology to architect and evolve a scalable talent ecosystem and leverage AI as a strategic lever, driving enterprise-wide streamline and shifting organization’s capacity toward high-impact human judgment and relationship-building.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to the CEO, C-suite, and other senior business leaders, influencing talent-related decisions by aligning acquisition strategies with long-term workforce planning and business objectives.
• Act as core partner on the People Experience (PEx) leadership team, contributing to the development and execution of a comprehensive, company-wide PEx strategy.

Senior Director, Talent Acquisition

SDET

• Utilize data analytics to analyze and diagnose a wide range of system faults and errors related to perception, planner, and other AI software from both on-road testing and system simulations.
• Effectively categorize and prioritize issues based on severity, urgency, and potential impact on safety and performance by working collaboratively with cross-functional teams (engineering, software, testing).
• Identify trends in system failures and propose preventative measures to improve overall system safety and robustness by producing clear and concise reports of system issues, troubleshooting steps, and root cause analysis.
• Be hands-on, lead by example, and develop tools and workflows to drive improvements for both quality and quantity aspects of the triage.
• Demonstrate operational agility by quickly adapting to changing priorities, managing multiple tasks simultaneously, and implementing effective solutions in dynamic environments.

Systems Test Engineer, System Behavior Analysis

Medical Billing and Coding

• Lead a Team: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of individual contributors, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Develop Strategy: Develop and organize our overall strategy for Onboard Behavior ML Models for generating driving plans for our autonomous vehicle. You will interface with multiple partner teams to identify opportunities for model improvements within their problem area. You’ll be setting the short and long term technical direction for the team and collaborate on broader company-wide directions.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership in the design and development of training models at large scale and work with partner teams on ensuring their efficient inference.
• Monitor Performance: Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of work packages and drive continuous improvement.
• Manage Resources: Manage the allocation of resources within the team, ensuring that projects are staffed appropriately and that team members have the necessary tools and support to succeed.

Manager, RL Algorithms – Decoder

Network Engineer

• You will design, develop, and test features for our road network applications such as the Editor, Map Health monitor, and map validation pipeline
• You will build out the content pipeline and automation that enables Cartographers to produce ZRN data accurately and quickly
• You will create software requirements, design documentation, test plans, and other supporting documentation
• You will contribute to all phases of the software development cycle including prototyping, requirements capture, design, implementation, and validation

Senior Software Engineer – Road Network Tools

Full-stack Engineer

• Develop and execute on the technical roadmap for the DAI’s integration with Scene Understanding and Perception Mapping to deliver end-to-end desired driving behavior in complex dynamic environments.
• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of desired driving behaviors through applied ML.
• Serve as a technical leader within the DAI team by contributing to design decisions, fostering our “One Zoox” culture, and maintaining high standards across Planner and ML development.
• Leverage our extensive backend tooling to develop validation strategies, define performance metrics, and test changes across many different driving situations.

Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Dynamic Agent Interactions

• Own the architecture and core of our test-orchestration platform
• Lead a small engineering team of two engineers plus 1–3 contractors
• Make the platform resilient at scale
• Build clean APIs and frameworks
• Partner across the company with multiple teams

Senior Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Own inventory, BOM, open PO, and other manufacturing KPI planning and reporting
• Support monthly S&OP and forecast variance reporting to Finance, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain leadership
• Manage close activities including accruals and allocations for product costing
• Analyze large financial datasets from Anaplan, SAP S4, SAP Ariba, and other internal data systems to drive actionable insights
• Support implementation of systems required for production manufacturing through design, build, testing, and cutover phases

Financial Analyst, Production Manufacturing

• Own the company-wide employee expense, benefits, and stock-based compensation financial models
• Own and maintain long-range, annual, and mid-year financial models for several G&A functions
• Partner with financial analysts and department leadership across the organization to develop headcount plans that align to key company initiatives
• Manage close activities related to employee expense, benefits, stock-based compensation, and G&A functions
• Analyze large financial datasets from Anaplan, SAP S4, SAP Ariba, and other internal data systems to drive actionable insights

Financial Analyst – Corporate and Employee Expenses

Manager

• Build and own the strategy for political and community engagement in southwestern cities
• Develop and maintain relationships with local officials, their staff, regulators, and other key external stakeholders
• Track current and emerging political activity and policy developments
• Represent Zoox at community and political events
• Manage locally-based political consultants
• Support the larger policy team by developing briefings, researching legislation, and managing complex, cross-functional projects
• Work closely with other teams at Zoox, including Legal, Communications, and Safety teams, to ensure up-to-date knowledge of company plans and report on policy/political developments with clear analysis.

Government Affairs and Public Policy Manager – Cities

Backend Engineer

• Architect and support foundational simulation software, focusing heavily on execution frameworks and latency optimization.
• Own the interface between our high-speed GPU simulation framework and the rest of the self-driving software stack.
• Improve simulation performance directly and build self-serve systems that accelerate the work of autonomy and ML engineers.
• Ensure the deterministic execution, precise timing, and reproducibility of all simulation results at scale.
• Collaborate closely with ML experts to bridge fidelity gaps between fast simulations and high-fidelity 3D environments.

Senior/Staff Software Engineer – C++ Simulation Platform

Machine Learning Engineer

• Develop and optimize our GPU-based simulation framework to support complex machine learning training and validation pipelines.
• Apply reinforcement learning concepts to solve complex behavioral and path planning challenges in simulation environments.
• Identify and resolve "sim-to-sim" and “sim-to-real” fidelity gaps to ensure parity between high-speed ML simulations, high-fidelity 3D environments, and physical vehicle execution.
• Build systems that allow autonomy users to self-serve data generation and accelerate their training iterations.
• Write robust, production-ready code to integrate advanced ML algorithms directly into our core simulation architecture.

Machine Learning Engineer – Simulation Framework

Data Scientist

• Design and build a high-quality, large-scale mapping dataset and data pipelines for training and evaluating machine learning models
• Design and build tools for model performance benchmarking and introspection
• Collaborate closely with machine learning engineers to define and refine data curation and model training strategies that drive measurable improvements in model accuracy and performance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with a variety of teams working on things such as perception, planning, prediction, simulation, etc

Data Scientist – Mapping

• 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