Senior Software Engineer - Robot Software Infrastructure

Location: Foster City, California, United States; hybrid workplace

Company

Zoox develops autonomous vehicles and the software, hardware, and operational systems required for their deployment.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain the operating system platform powering on-vehicle devices and autonomy applications.
• Architect scalable platform-level software and robotics infrastructure.
• Configure embedded Linux build systems such as Yocto and bootloader processes such as U-Boot.
• Develop and optimize kernel-space components and device drivers in C, C++, or Rust.
• Collaborate with application software, release management, hardware engineering, manufacturing, and operations teams on integration, issue triage, hardware bring-up, and delivery.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience delivering production systems and software applications.
• Experience designing and deploying continuous integration and validation toolchains for Linux/OS images across different hardware platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Linux internals, including init systems, containerization, filesystems, kernel-space development, and device drivers.
• Systems programming experience with C/C++ and scripting with Python or Bash.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Embedded Linux experience in robotics applications.
• Familiarity with PKI, secure boot, OTA software updates, and hardware key storage.
• Experience with Nvidia GPUs, Thor or Orin, CUDA, and TensorRT.
• Graduate degree focused on networking, operating systems, or firmware.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment in Foster City, California.
• Cross-functional collaboration across software, hardware, manufacturing, operations, and release management.
• Opportunity to work on automotive-grade hardware and autonomous driving systems.