Staff HPC Engineer: Build Scalable Distributed Compute

Front Door Defense

Foster City, Northern (CA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 230,000 - 295,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Zoox is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to build, scale, and operate our HPC infrastructure for autonomous workloads. You will modernize our HPC platform with Ray.io, SLURM, and Kubernetes, focusing on reliability and developer velocity.

This role offers ownership of HPC strategy and collaboration with Autonomy and Software teams to translate workload requirements into scalable infrastructure. You will influence multi-region orchestration, capacity planning, and developer tooling to accelerate

Qualifications

Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
Experience with Ray.io, particularly Ray Core and Ray Data (or equivalent technologies).
Experience with Kubernetes, particularly for heterogeneous workloads.
Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS or similar providers.
Track record of shipping and operating reliable, scalable infrastructure.
Proficiency with Python.

Responsibilities

Design and implement core services and abstractions for distributed compute infrastructure supporting thousands of concurrent jobs.
Work with customer teams and other infrastructure teams to build a multiyear software engineering roadmap for the HPC platform.
Lead multi-quarter, cross-team initiatives that drive org-wide improvements.
Create production-grade APIs, SDKs, and tools that make it easy for engineers across Zoox to run large-scale distributed workloads.
Design and improve job scheduling algorithms and auto-scaling policies to maximize reliability and resource availability.
Design multi-region orchestration strategies that optimize data locality, reliability, and performance.
Identify and resolve systemic reliability and performance issues through profiling and collaboration with workload owners.
Evaluate new technologies and paradigms that improve Zoox's computational and storage capabilities.
Develop capacity planning tools and forecasting models to support Zoox's growing compute needs.
Mentor junior engineers, guiding them through their career development.