Autonomy Systems Test Engineer - Build Safe, Scalable Tests

Ev Magazine; Foster City (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

Zoox is seeking an Autonomy Systems Test Engineer in Foster City, CA, with a hybrid work arrangement. You will design test strategies for self-driving features, build synthetic and log-based test scenarios, and drive QA triage across multiple validation pipelines to ensure feature reliability.

The role requires 3+ years of software testing experience, proficiency with automated testing, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years designing and implementing scalable test strategies for software systems.
• Experience with automated test frameworks and scripting languages.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and prioritization skills.

Responsibilities

• 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 driving software features 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.
• Lead cross-functional QA participation in various testing pipelines, initiatives, and enablement projects.

Skills

Test strategy design

Test automation

JIRA

Git

Linux

Python

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field

Tools

JIRA

Git

Linux

Python

Job description

Zoox is seeking an Autonomy Systems Test Engineer in Foster City, CA, with a hybrid work arrangement. You will design test strategies for self-driving features, build synthetic and log-based test scenarios, and drive QA triage across multiple validation pipelines to ensure feature reliability.

The role requires 3+ years of software testing experience, proficiency with automated testing, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.