Join the Software Systems Engineering team at Zoox to enhance middleware and diagnostics for the new robotaxi. Drive software development practices, collaborate across teams, and improve system safety and availability through architectural design and fault management.
This is an opportunity to join the Software Systems Engineering team to participate in building the Zoox robotaxi, the first in the world to operate on public roads. The Software Systems Engineering team is responsible for defining SW development processes and ensuring that all safety-critical software meets a high safety bar for production vehicles.
In this role, you will help introduce and drive the adoption of software development best practices across middleware components, including requirements, architectural design, code quality, and testing strategy; contributing to defining diagnostics strategies and appropriate system reactions to ensure robust, safe, and maintainable operation.
In this role, you will:
- 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.
Qualifications:
- B.S./M.S./PhD in Engineering, Physics or relevant field and 7+ years of experience
- Strong experience in middleware, ideally in embedded or distributed systems
- Strong communication skills with the ability to translate architectural and safety considerations into actionable engineering requirements
- Demonstrated ability to apply software engineering best practices
- Experience working in cross-functional environments involving platform, safety and software teams
Bonus Qualifications:
- Hands on experience with design and implementation of diagnostic systems such as health monitoring, fault reduction or logging frameworks
- C++, MATLAB, Python
- Experience on Safety-Critical Systems
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.
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