Senior/Staff Software Engineer: Platform Software and Services

Zoox's Robot Software Infrastructure team is seeking a passionate software engineer to advance the platform software powering multiple devices in our autonomous vehicles. This team develops platform-level software and services, including operating systems that enable complex, hardware-accelerated workloads critical for autonomous driving on automotive-grade hardware.

We work closely with cross-functional teams—including developers, release management, and operations—to support vehicle development and deployment at scale.

Example challenges:

How does a vehicle determine what to do when it wakes up?

How can a fleet decide which software to install or update for a 24/7 ride-share mission?

Our team tackles these challenges by designing and building services like runtime configuration systems and tools that ensure seamless operation and updates across the entire vehicle fleet. If you’re passionate about solving complex problems and have a strong understanding of how components fit into a broader robot-taxi ecosystem, this is the team for you!

In this role, you’ll join a growing team that is responsible for:

• Developing and maintaining Zoox’s custom operating system.
• Selecting, configuring, and updating kernels and device drivers, including GPU drivers.
• Building and maintaining platform services (backend and frontend), OS build tools, and installation tools.
• Managing software build and authorization systems.
• Designing and implementing in-field update mechanisms and OS validation plans.
• Developing startup time and runtime auditing, and control mechanisms for software and hardware configurations across vehicle fleets.
• Overseeing hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and continuous integration (CI) infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience
• Solid understanding of operating system internals.
• Solid experience in designing, developing, and deploying large-scale platform-level services and software solutions.
• Expertise in Linux, including build systems (e.g., Yocto), bootloaders, init systems, containerization, filesystems, networking, and device drivers.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and the client-server model.
• Experience with software build and update systems
• Proficiency in C or C++ and scripting languages like Python.

Bonus Qualifications

• Familiarity with security software: PKI, secure boot, hardware key storage, etc.
• Expertise in GPU hardware and software architecture
• Experience with robotics or autonomous driving technologies
• Graduate degree in computer science or closely related field