Zoox

Backend Engineer

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a growing team of world-class software and performance engineers.
• Own the end-to-end architecture of simulation execution systems, ensuring seamless execution across both local developer workstations and distributed cloud environments.
• Direct comprehensive performance engineering initiatives, including rigorous benchmarking, systems profiling, and deep-dive root cause analysis of complex bottlenecks.
• Drive systematic improvements to the simulator's runtime performance, optimizing CPU/memory utilization and dramatically reducing execution latency.
• Drive the architectural decoupling of the core simulation engine from infrastructure orchestration, creating a highly modular and scalable execution pipeline.
• Design and build robust APIs and SDKs (Python, C++, REST) that allow autonomy workflows to easily configure, execute, and interact with the simulator.
• Create telemetry and dashboards to continuously track and improve execution speed.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration with autonomy, QA, and infrastructure teams to deliver a frictionless, high-speed developer experience.

Manager, Simulation C++ Platform

Manager

Manager, Simulation Execution – Performance

Marketing

• Define and implement innovative loyalty strategies to increase customer lifetime value (CLV), reduce churn, and foster brand advocacy.
• Design, launch, and manage the Zoox loyalty program from the ground up, creating a world-class experience that drives customer engagement, increases ride frequency, and builds brand affinity.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year loyalty program roadmap, outlining key milestones, feature enhancements, and strategic initiatives to evolve the program over time.
• Own all marketing promotions, including strategy, planning, execution, budget, tracking, and performance analysis.
• Identify, evaluate, and execute new loyalty opportunities and strategic partnerships that enhance the value proposition for our riders.

Loyalty Marketing Manager

Systems Engineer

• Act as a cross-functional bridge between middleware developers, and safety teams to ensure aligned design decisions and requirements.
• Develop and maintain a holistic architectural view of the middleware stack, including dependencies, interfaces and potential failure paths, for various compute platforms.
• Help evolve and strengthen the middleware and diagnostics architecture by identifying improvement opportunities such as decoupling interdependent components, designing appropriate fault reactions, etc.
• Define and implement component and system level diagnostics strategy, including fault detection, reporting, logging and traceability.
• Analyze fault propagation scenarios across components and help design mitigations that improve system availability and safety.
• Generate and track fault metrics on a regular cadence.

Software Systems Engineer – Middleware, Diagnostics

Technical Product Manager

• Develop end-to-end experiences: Create, test, iterate, launch, and improve features in one or more HAI domains that cut across rider interfaces (mobile app, in-vehicle screens, light, sound, voice, motion), backend software, operator tools, and operator processes to create robust, end-to-end solutions to complex problems.
• Shape product vision: Identify major opportunities and craft product vision, strategies, and roadmaps that align with Zoox’s strategic objectives and customer needs.
• Conduct market and competitive analysis: Define and analyze Zoox's market position to inform product strategy and deliver experiences that advance our mission.
• Navigate Ambiguity: Drive problem-solving and deliver innovative solutions in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with evolving processes.
• Data utilization: Utilize data, research, and market insights to guide product strategies and development plans.
• User-centric design: Integrate user research and market analysis into product requirements to enhance usability and productivity.
• Lead Cross-Functional Product Development: Partner with engineering, design, and research across Zoox to define requirements, manage trade-offs, and drive product development from concept to launch.
• Cross-functional Coordination: Work closely with various teams to define product requirements, manage resources, and ensure key milestones are met.
• Deliver High-Impact Products: Own the launch of new features and products, ensuring they deliver measurable value to our riders and the business.
• Performance metrics: Develop and analyze metrics to gauge product success and track performance indicators.

Senior Technical Product Manager – HAI, Routing

Product Designer

• Champion a Human-Centered process, collaborating across the company to prioritize and solve scenarios and create impactful, brand-aligned solutions that advance our strategy.
• Partner closely with UX Research to design and run studies, leveraging insights and communicating design solutions to inform product direction for diverse audiences and organizational levels.
• Design elegant, accessible, intuitive, and delightful mobile app interfaces and interactions, based on a deep understanding of our riders and other road users.
• Create, test, and iterate on the app's information architecture, wireframes, and user journeys, working closely with cross-functional teams to bring features to life; ideate and validate UX/UI design for both iOS and Android.
• Demonstrate leadership capabilities to orchestrate complex projects with a variety of cross-functional stakeholders.
• Contribute to the evolution and maintenance of Zoox's design systems and principles.
• Proficiently design systems architecture with a strong focus on accessibility, including implementing WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) standards.
• Clearly and effectively present design strategies, utilizing strong verbal and written communication skills to convey design concepts.

Senior UX/UI Designer, Rider Applications

DevOps Engineer

• Establish and refine system- and component-level reliability targets for the electric drive unit (EDU), high-voltage battery (HVB), and HV to LV Power Distribution (DCDC and HV harnesses) in collaboration with Vehicle Systems Engineering and cross-functional stakeholders
• Drive the design failure mode and effects analysis (DFMEA) process for EDU and HVB to identify critical reliability risks and define effective mitigation strategies
• Apply reliability targets, DFMEA risk insights, and physics-of-failure understanding to develop virtual and physical validation plans in partnership with validation engineers
• Lead the definition of Prognostics & Health Monitoring (PHM) strategy for EDU and HVB systems, including field monitoring concepts that enable early detection, return-to-base actions, and reduced roadside events
• Support execution of PHM and field reliability initiatives by translating design-time assumptions into measurable signals, metrics, and feedback loops that inform corrective actions and design improvements
• Pave the way from development to field deployment by building systems and processes that identify reliability performance gaps, prioritize improvement opportunities, and drive timely corrective actions across design, validation, and operations
• Contribute to broader design reliability efforts, ensuring durability, serviceability, and lifecycle reliability considerations are embedded early in system architecture and design decisions
• Engage with component suppliers to ensure components are able to achieve our high reliability standards

Senior Reliability Engineer – EV Powertrain Systems

SDET

• Create test strategies and test plans for Zoox’s self-driving behavior features.
• Identify, track, report, and resolve test strategy, planning, or implementation issues with cross-functional software development teams.
• Propose, prototype, and validate a new testing methodology for the AI stack using automated metrics.
• Design, develop, and execute synthetic and log-based test scenarios on an in-house simulation test framework.
• Compile triage strategy and triage results from different QA validation platforms and pipelines.

Senior Autonomy System Test Engineer

Technical Program Manager

• Lead an experienced team of TPMs and leverage your technical & managerial skills to deliver high-impact results, while growing the TPM team through hiring & guiding the professional development of team members
• Set the program management direction for the autonomy perception TPM team, and iterate on our development processes
• Work with autonomy and perception software department leaders to translate the top-down corporate strategy and milestones into detailed product roadmaps, timelines, and deliverables.
• Create and deliver technical presentations that explain program initiatives to downstream consumer teams
• Represent the team in cross-departmental forums, with key stakeholders, and in executive meetings
• Establish standard reports to provide concise and effective communications to key stakeholders on program status, issues/risks, and accomplishments

Manager, Technical Program Manager – Artificial Intelligence

• Work across the entire data generation stack
• Optimize multi-threaded, on-vehicle C++ code that handles millions of messages each minute
• Analyze petabytes of data
• Develop and scale software frameworks for efficiently identifying driving data on-robot
• Ensure access to critical business data while minimizing robot turnaround time
• Interface with other on-vehicle software teams to promote the adoption of new data frameworks
• Work with autonomy, hardware, safety, legal, and homologation teams to ensure compliance

Senior Software Engineer – C++ Core Data

Full-stack Engineer

• Design trajectory generation algorithms and implement them in high-quality software to continuously improve the capability of our autonomous driving system and enhance the safety and comfort of our driving behavior on public roads.
• Use our extensive backend tooling to test and validate your algorithms and software across many different driving situations, and develop metrics and pipelines to further our ability to test/measure the algorithms’ performance.
• Participate in or lead cross-functional projects to deliver mission-critical features to expand our autonomous driving capabilities.
• Participate in on-vehicle drive reviews to gather actionable feedback on driving performance, and use this knowledge to help the team learn and make continuous improvements.
• Conduct literature review and participate in study groups to stay current with the advancements in the fields of Motion Planning, Autonomous Driving, and Robotics in general.

Software Engineer – Trajectory Generation

Program Manager

• Establish standard reports to provide concise and effective communications to key stakeholders on operations infrastructure program status, issues/risks, and accomplishments
• Represent infrastructure teams in the cross-functional process of enabling autonomous driving at Zoox locations
• Consolidate all new sites, construction projects, and work tickets into one program for organized delivery and reporting of on-site driving
• Bridge the gap between software, safety, product, operations, and infrastructure teams to ensure cohesive site planning
• Define a new infrastructure enablement process suited to scale for many sites in many cities
• Build decision-making into new sites that accounts for operational costs, vehicle requirements, and software features
• Ensure problems are transparent and risks are identified and proactively ensure that risk mitigating actions are ongoing within relevant cross-functional teams
• Track the completion of important items for key decisions to be made at each meeting to eliminate bottlenecks and retire risks

Program Manager, Operations Infrastructure

Procurement

• Lead procurement and partnership initiatives for Zoox’s testing infrastructure requirements; build and maintain strategic relationships with key suppliers as the lead point of contact for all commercial topics
• 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
• Proactively engage with Zoox stakeholders (incl. engineering, operations, manufacturing, strategy, finance, and design) to derive and execute the short- and medium-term business and technology roadmap to support Zoox’s vehicle development and service deployment
• 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

Strategic Sourcing Manager – Test Infrastructure

• Take end-to-end ownership of design, development, and maintenance of scalable systems for collecting, cataloging, storing, and processing petabytes of vehicle data
• Own the development and scaling of robust log data storage solutions using AWS S3, and distributed systems to ensure data integrity and availability
• Drive the technical design for assigned features, creating detailed design documents, and actively contributing to broader team design discussions
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling to ensure high availability and reliability of data pipelines processing thousands of runs daily
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in data ingestion and storage systems, participating in on-call rotations

Software Engineer, Robot Data Platform

• Implement data downsampling while preserving the business value
• Develop features to simplify data tracking for legal and regulatory needs
• Optimize performance of the existing framework to run efficiently on vehicle
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to identify and add missing framework features