Software Engineer - Core Data Infrastructure

Zoox•Foster City, CA

4d•$166,000 - $230,000

About The Position

Zoox’s Core Data Infrastructure team is looking for a passionate software engineer to support our robot data transmission pipeline at scale across numerous cities. Your contributions will be critical to bringing our service to production. Responsibilities will cover high-bandwidth logging (several GB/min), data offload telemetry, large-scale data transmission and high performance networking. Great candidates will be comfortable working at our headquarters, in the field at Zoox depots, and occasionally in the vehicles themselves. Candidates will do daily software feature development, while regularly supporting operational teams and network planning with our network operations team. Critical thinking, system design and an architectural mindset will be essential to being successful in this role. Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. Sitting at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and design, Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobility-as-a-service in urban environments. We’re looking for top talent that shares our passion and wants to be part of a fast-moving and highly execution-oriented team. Follow us on LinkedIn

Requirements

BS in computer science (or related field) or equivalent practical experience
Strong written communication skills and ability to build consensus across multiple teams
Strong Python experience and comfort working in a language without automatic memory management (e.g., C or C++)
Linux systems knowledge: networks, filesystems, devices, etc.
Experience with a cloud service provider with object storage (eg., AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage)

Nice To Haves

Familiarity working hands-on with high performance networking and compute (100G+ Networking, WAN networks, high performance server deployment)
Experience dealing with data volumes at a Petabyte+ scale

Responsibilities

Develop software both on and off the robot to maximize system throughput when transmitting data
Work with key stakeholders to develop initial data infrastructure required for landing in new cities
Architect long-term network infrastructure design for permanent robot depots
Incorporate operational feedback to mature existing offload systems
Design software for ~100x growth of our fleet to support rapid expansion through the next several years