Software Systems Engineer - Middleware

Zoox•Foster City, CA

57d•$165,000 - $252,000

About The Position

The Software Systems Engineering team is responsible for defining SW development processes and ensuring that all safety-critical software meets a high safety bar for production vehicles. In this role, you will help define features and capabilities of middleware components that help achieve safety goals. Your collaboration with middleware engineers to execute processes such as those specified in ISO26262 will allow us to achieve functional safety goals of High ASIL SW functionality.

Requirements

B.S./M.S./PhD in Engineering, Physics or relevant field and 5+ years of experience
Experience in a Systems Engineering role
Technical understanding of the physics and fundamental technologies used in automotive Camera, LiDAR, and Radar systems
Experience in negotiating, writing and managing requirements
Cross-functional collaboration to determine system requirements, through a combination of field testing or analysis and experience in presenting results

Nice To Haves

Experience on Sensors for Autonomous Vehicles (Camera, LiDAR, Radar)
MATLAB, Python, Optis (or comparable integrated raytracing tool)
Experience in Sensors V&V
Experience on Safety-Critical Systems

Responsibilities

Lead various systems engineering activities that are essential for a successful launch of safety-critical software on a self-driving vehicle
Help define architecture of how middleware applications fulfill system level (or vehicle level) needs in our robot taxi.
Define processes that leverage middleware's capabilities, and help build a strong and future-proof architecture for the robotaxi as we expand to newer and larger markets.
Assist in investigating new HW and SW and suppliers for future generations of our compute platform.
Collaborate with the safety team to identify safety requirements, explore redundancy options, and develop methods to ensure system-wide safety goals are met