The Senior Software Engineer will develop data infrastructure, enhance network design, and implement software for high-bandwidth data transmission critical for robot operations.
Zoox’s Core Data Infrastructure team is looking for a passionate software engineer to support our robot data transmission pipeline at scale across numerous cities. Your contributions will be critical to bringing our service to production. Responsibilities will cover high-bandwidth logging (several GB/min), data offload telemetry, large-scale data transmission and high performance networking.
Great candidates will be comfortable working at our headquarters, in the field at Zoox depots, and occasionally in the vehicles themselves. Candidates will do daily software feature development, while regularly supporting operational teams and network planning with our network operations team. Critical thinking, system design and an architectural mindset will be essential to being successful in this role.
In this role, you will:
- Develop software both on and off the robot to maximize system throughput when transmitting data
- Work with key stakeholders to develop initial data infrastructure required for landing in new cities
- Architect long-term network infrastructure design for permanent robot depots
- Incorporate operational feedback to mature existing offload systems
- Design software for ~100x growth of our fleet to support rapid expansion through the next several years
Qualifications:
- BS in computer science (or related field) or equivalent practical experience and 7+ years of experience
- Strong written communication skills and ability to build consensus across multiple teams
- Strong Python experience and comfort working in a language without automatic memory management (e.g., C or C++)
- Linux systems knowledge: networks, filesystems, devices, etc.
- Experience with a cloud service provider with object storage (eg., AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage)
Bonus Qualifications:
- Familiarity working hands-on with high performance networking and compute (100G+ Networking, WAN networks, high performance server deployment)
- Experience dealing with data volumes at a Petabyte+ scale
About Zoox
Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. Sitting at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and design, Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobility-as-a-service in urban environments. We’re looking for top talent that shares our passion and wants to be part of a fast-moving and highly execution-oriented team.
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If you need an accommodation to participate in the application or interview process please reach out to [email protected] or your assigned recruiter.
A Final Note:
You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. Here at Zoox, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to be successful, and we are committed to building a team that encompasses a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.
Top Skills
Aws S3
C
C++
Google Cloud Storage
Linux
Python
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