Senior Safety-Critical Software Engineer, Pipelines

Zoox; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 219,000 - 315,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health insurance

Zoox stock appreciation rights

RSUs

Sign-on bonus may be offered

Job summary

Zoox seeks a senior engineer to own the Software Systems Engineering pipeline, uniting ClangTidy, ASAN/TSAN, FBInfer, and Looker. You’ll evolve pipelines from prototypes to production-grade systems and build dashboards showing real-time health of software quality across the org.

You will design automation, report on metrics, and help steer SSE scale and infrastructure while collaborating with leads and cross-functional teams in Zoox’s safety-critical software stack.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a relevant field and 7+ years on large codebases.
• Experience with Bazel/Python, backend infra, and C++/Python interfacing.
• Draft system design diagrams and customer-facing docs.
• Able to automate tasks with quick scripts for metrics and traceability.
• Experience with enterprise deployment practices.

Responsibilities

• Be the go-to owner for the SSE pipeline ecosystem across CI and production-grade tooling.
• Drive pipelines from prototypes to deployed, CI-enforced systems.
• Turn raw issue data into dashboards and KPIs for leadership.
• Root-cause cross-platform issues and build instrumentation to fix them.
• Help shape future SSE pipeline scope and scaling strategies.

Skills

Large codebases

System diagnostics

Scripting for automation

Education

MS or PhD in CS/EE/Robotics/Aerospace

Tools

Bazel

Python

C++

FBInfer

Looker

ReactJS

TypeScript

Job description

Zoox seeks a senior engineer to own the Software Systems Engineering pipeline, uniting ClangTidy, ASAN/TSAN, FBInfer, and Looker. You’ll evolve pipelines from prototypes to production-grade systems and build dashboards showing real-time health of software quality across the org.

You will design automation, report on metrics, and help steer SSE scale and infrastructure while collaborating with leads and cross-functional teams in Zoox’s safety-critical software stack.