Software Engineer - Automation Tools and Infrastructure

Zoox•Foster City, CA

27d

About The Position

Zoox is looking for a Software Engineer intern to join our Firmware Tools team. In this role, you will write software to help integrate internal and external tools for automated firmware prototyping, development, testing and integration. This role requires someone passionate about automation using both existing test frameworks as well as developing new ones. The Firmware Tools team designs and develops automated processes and tools to support on-vehicle firmware development and testing. Many projects are short-term, allowing each developer to follow projects through their full life cycles while still jumping into a multitude of opportunities. On the Firmware Tools team, we utilize a variety of Python libraries, as well as C++. Many of our tools utilize multiprocessing and multithreading to provide performant software to test firmware using HIL and SIL test frameworks. Additionally, we support testing of on-vehicle communications, including CAN, LIN and pub/sub protocols using a tech stack consisting of Cursor, GitHub, Bazel, ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry. Some examples of tools we've developed include: Controller Area Network (CAN) client and data logger Python library for the extraction, manipulation and analysis of vehicle data Command and control for a variety of hardware, including power supply units (PSUs), DAQs, Electronic Loads and Cellular Network Simulators Tester Health Diagnostics, Tester Autorecovery and a Tester Interface front-end and backend Branch-based CI/CD Infrastructure, Test Artifact Uploading and Test Artifact Post-processing and Analysis Event logging and Observability for Zoox Test Framework

Requirements

BS in relevant engineering discipline and 1+ years of relevant work experience
HIL and/or SIL Test Frameworks
Object-oriented programming experience (Python or C++ preferred)
Experience building cross-platform software with source control (Git)
Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Nice To Haves

CI and build systems (e.g. Bamboo, Buildkite, etc.)
Python libraries (e.g. pybind, pytest, pandas, python-can, plotly, matplotlib, etc.)
Communication protocols (e.g. CAN, LIN, pub/sub)
ClickHouse, OpenSearch, Grafana, Databricks, etc. Databases and Observability Platforms

Responsibilities

Develop software for an automated validation framework, supporting continuous integration (CI) via smoke, sanity, nightly, weekly pipelines
Research, design, develop, rollout, and maintain software tools and test framework for development and validation
Integrate tester software systems with server infrastructure, including networking (CAN, wifi, cellular, WIFI, NFC, etc), hardware instruments (DAQs, PSUs), protocol-level simulator/spoofer hardware, etc.
Propose tool and/or feature ideas to the team to improve processes