Senior Systems Engineer - VDI

ZooxFoster City, CA
4d

About The Position

Zoox is hiring a Senior VDI & VMware Platform Engineer with deep subjectmatter expertise in VMware technologies, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF),and Horizon/VDI architectures. You will serve as the technical authorityfor Zoox’s VMware-based Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) andenterprise virtual desktop platforms. This role owns the architecture, scalability, performance, andoperational excellence of our VMware ecosystem — enabling secure,high-performance virtual environments that support engineers, AI/MLworkloads, and business operations globally.

Requirements

  • Extensive hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, Horizon, vSAN, and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
  • Demonstrated experience designing and operating enterprise SDDC platforms at scale
  • Strong understanding of lifecycle management, cluster design, resource allocation, and high-availability strategies within VMware environments
  • Proven success designing and scaling VMware Horizon environments for enterprise organizations
  • Expertise in desktop image optimization, application delivery, user profile management, and performance tuning

Nice To Haves

  • Experience with scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python), and orchestration tools (e.g., Aria Automation / Orchestrator, Ansible, Terraform)
  • Ability to communicate architectural strategy clearly to technical teams and executive stakeholders
  • Experience leading cross-functional infrastructure initiatives

Responsibilities

  • Act as the Subject Matter Expert for VMware vSphere, vSAN, VCF and Horizon
  • Design and evolve Zoox's on-prem and hybrid cloud VMware SDDC
  • Lead architecture, implementation and lifecycle of scalable Horizon based VDI infrastructure, including GPU workloads, for thousands of users
  • Architect and operate enterprise VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments (workload domains, lifecycle, capacity, HA and DR)
  • Own the health, patching, and lifecycle of the VMware stack
  • Establish best practices for image management, profile handling, application layering, UX optimization, and secure remote access
  • Lead VMware/Horizon automation using PowerCLI, scripting, IaC, and orchestration
  • Develop repeatable SDDC/VDI deployment patterns
  • Implement observability, monitoring, and proactive capacity modeling to reduce operational friction
  • Author technical standards, diagrams, and operational runbooks
  • Serve as complex issue escalation point and lead post-incident reviews
  • Mentor engineers on VMware and Horizon

Benefits

  • paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
  • unpaid time off
  • Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
  • Amazon RSUs
  • health insurance
  • long-term care insurance
  • long-term and short-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
© 2024 Teal Labs, Inc
Privacy PolicyTerms of Service