Engineering Manager, Autonomy Validation Platform & Pipelines

Polluxa, Inc.; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoox is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead the Autonomy Validation Platform & Pipelines infrastructure team, responsible for the platform powering Zoox’s safety approach through mass-scale simulation and key validation pipelines.

You will hire, grow, and coach a team while designing large-scale distributed systems, automation of complex processes with human-in-the-loop stages, and maintaining mission-critical SLAs across multiple locales.

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams of 5–10+ people.
• Proven ability to prioritize work and align multiple stakeholders.
• Experience with high-scale compute systems on AWS.
• Strong operations background with highly available systems.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.

Responsibilities

• Develop a vision and roadmap for compute platforms and pipelines for autonomy validation at scale.
• Collaborate with AI teams to automate dataset prep, compute resource management, and safety metrics signoff.
• Build operational excellence including on-call responsibilities and toil reduction.
• Grow and coach the team, owning hiring and career development.

Skills

Team management

Cross-functional alignment

AWS cloud

Operational excellence

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Ray.io

Airflow

Job description

Zoox is looking for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead our Autonomy Validation Platform & Pipelines infrastructure team. This team is responsible for the platform powering Zoox’s safety approach through mass-scale simulation, as well as for key safety validation pipelines running on it. You will take on a wide breadth of end-to-end responsibilities, including the design of large-scale distributed systems & compute frameworks, the automation of complex business processes with human-in-the-loop stages, and the establishment of best-in-class operations to maintain mission-critical SLAs.

The position comes with a high degree of independence and the opportunity to help define Zoox’s autonomy validation and scaling strategy, both technically and organizationally. You will work closely with stakeholders in Autonomy, System Design & Mission Assurance, and Software Systems teams to develop a cohesive, deeply vertically integrated solution. You will also be responsible for hiring and maintaining the health of your team, as well as growing and coaching them to support the continued success of their careers.

In this role, you will:

• Develop a vision and roadmap for designing, building, and owning compute frameworks and platforms for running autonomy validation pipelines at scale
• Work closely with AI teams and other software customers to automate complex business processes around dataset preparation, compute resource management, and safety metrics signoff
• Build the muscle for operational excellence, including but not limited to on-call roles & responsibilities, component/service ownership boundaries, and manual toil reduction.
• Align goals and progress with Zoox milestones across Autonomy versions and launch locales
• Grow & expand the team by owning all stages of the hiring and career development process, from thoughtful role definition to interview loop design to successfully hiring & developing bar raisers

Qualifications:

• Experience managing teams of 5-10+
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize development work and build cross-functional consensus across multiple stakeholders
• Experience with high scale compute systems deployed on cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Strong operational background with highly available systems
• Bachelor's degree in computer science (or related field)

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with Ray.io , particularly Ray Core and Ray Data
• Experience with Airflow or similar workflow orchestrators
• Proficiency with Python, Java, or other managed languages

Base Salary Range

There are three major components to compensation for this position: salary, Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights. A sign-on bonus may be offered as part of the compensation package. The listed r