Senior Systems Engineer - VDI

Zoox • Foster City, CA

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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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed