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Perform system safety analyses for autonomous vehicle sensing and perception systems. Define safety requirements, metrics, and fail-operational architectures for camera, lidar, radar, sensor fusion, and machine learning subsystems. Lead cross-functional safety projects, apply ISO 26262 and SOTIF methods, guide sensor architecture decisions, analyze field and simulation data, and support safety arguments for public-road deployment. The role also involves data analysis, system-level tradeoffs, and using AI/LLM tools to improve efficiency.

Leads architecture, optimization, scaling, and ownership of Zoox’s enterprise and AI data platform. Builds self-healing pipelines, governance frameworks, data quality and observability systems, secure access controls, lifecycle policies, and automated CI/CD deployment infrastructure. Optimizes Databricks and AWS EMR performance and costs while enabling low-latency, AI-ready data foundations. The role also drives enterprise security, compliance, schema evolution, and developer velocity, with opportunities to apply GenAI, Terraform, and EKS.

Develop distributed computing algorithms, performance metrics, and analysis tools for Zoox’s Collision Avoidance System. Analyze petabytes of urban driving data, evaluate system performance, and collaborate with CAS Perception, Planning, Systems Design, Mission Assurance, and QA engineers to define autonomous-driving validation metrics and plans.

Lead Zoox’s global talent acquisition strategy and a 50+ person recruiting organization. Oversee university, internal mobility, executive, and technical recruiting; build scalable sourcing-to-offer processes; establish data-driven reporting and workforce-planning frameworks; leverage AI and HR technology; and advise the CEO, C-suite, and People Experience leadership on talent strategy and organizational growth.

The Executive Recruiter will drive the entire executive recruitment lifecycle, manage high-level stakeholder relationships, and engage top executive talent in a fast-paced environment.

Develop and test safety-critical embedded software for autonomous vehicle drive systems. Translate trajectories into motor, brake, and steering commands; build simulation, SIL, and HIL validation infrastructure; integrate steering, braking, motoring, and suspension subsystems; implement control-source arbitration and safety monitoring; and collaborate with controls, dynamics, safety, and validation teams.

Lead autonomy-wide initiatives to achieve driverless freeway operation. Define technical vision, strategy, and roadmap; identify and close gaps to driver-out readiness; develop and validate freeway-driving algorithms; communicate risks and trade-offs to technical and executive stakeholders; and mentor engineers. The role requires significant experience taking autonomous vehicle freeway programs from supervised to driverless operation, plus deep expertise in an autonomy domain such as planning, perception, prediction, simulation, or systems engineering.

Own and advance a deck.gl-based geospatial visualization library. Design 2D and 3D rendering capabilities for maps, road networks, lane geometry, and proprietary road structures; improve performance for large datasets; and strengthen architecture, testing, documentation, and code quality. Collaborate with Cartography and Simulation teams, mentor engineers, and build scalable shared libraries using React and TypeScript.

Lead signal and power integrity architecture for advanced robotaxi electronics and high-density PCBs. Define SI/PI constraints, routing strategies, simulation methodologies, and sign-off processes for PCIe, Ethernet, MIPI, GMSL, LPDDR, and A2B interfaces. Perform PDN analysis, lab characterization, root-cause investigations, and simulation-to-test correlation. Guide cross-functional hardware, silicon, layout, and mechanical teams while mentoring engineers and influencing technical strategy.

Develop and maintain embedded Linux firmware and cellular connectivity software for autonomous vehicle telematics control units. Integrate Qualcomm modem firmware and protocol stacks, architect host-side C/C++ interfaces, debug cross-layer LTE/5G issues, and support wireless platform prototyping. Build fleet telemetry and analytics systems, investigate field and QA issues, maintain Yocto-based Linux services and kernel code, automate testing, and collaborate with vendors and cross-functional engineering teams.