Engineering Manager: Generative Simulation & Tools

Zoox; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoox's simulation team builds tools used to validate autonomous vehicle safety and performance, including 3D editors, generative models, and agentic workflows. We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead software and ML engineers, set technical direction toward generative AI, mentor the team, and partner with product, safety, autonomy, and validation stakeholders to scale engineering efforts.

The role focuses on delivering scalable simulation tooling, advancing ODD capabilities, and ensuring

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience in simulation or related domain.
• 2+ years directly managing software and/or ML engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management.
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with leaders across engineering to prioritize and deliver a shared roadmap.
• Strong understanding of simulation, testing, or validation systems for safety-critical software.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a mixed team of software and ML engineers building simulation tools used broadly across engineering to validate autonomous vehicle safety and performance.
• Set and drive the team's technical direction, investing in agentic tooling to automate manual simulation workflows and deploying in-house generative models for exploratory vehicle testing.
• Lead high-visibility, cross-functional initiatives to scale the company's generative scenario creation capabilities, partnering with stakeholders across engineering and earning executive sponsorship.
• Own delivery of simulation tooling and services, including scenario authoring tools (e.g., 3D visual editors) used broadly across engineering teams.
• Ensure simulation tooling keeps pace with new Operational Design Domain (ODD) capabilities and upcoming autonomy milestones.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers across both software and ML disciplines, including hiring ML engineers; build a strong team culture and clear growth paths.
• Partner with product, safety, autonomy, and validation stakeholders to prioritize the roadmap, translate business needs into technical execution, and deliver against autonomy milestones.

Skills

Software engineering

Team management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Zoox's simulation team builds tools used to validate autonomous vehicle safety and performance, including 3D editors, generative models, and agentic workflows. We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead software and ML engineers, set technical direction toward generative AI, mentor the team, and partner with product, safety, autonomy, and validation stakeholders to scale engineering efforts.

The role focuses on delivering scalable simulation tooling, advancing ODD capabilities, and ensuring