Software Engineer - Pipeline Infrastructure & Integration

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

Company

Zoox develops autonomous transportation technology and safety-critical software systems for production vehicles.

What you will do

• Own the software pipeline ecosystem, including ClangTidy, ASAN, TSAN, Harden, and FBInfer, across weekly, nightly, and CI workflows.
• Move pipeline prototypes into fully deployed, CI-enforced systems across branches.
• Build dashboards, KPIs, and metrics for pipeline health and software quality trends.
• Investigate cross-platform and determinism issues and develop instrumentation to identify root causes.
• Contribute to checker rollouts, testing strategy, infrastructure scaling, code reviews, and incident postmortems.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in computer science, electrical engineering, robotics, aerospace, or a related field, plus 3+ years of experience with large codebases.
• Experience with Bazel and Python, backend infrastructure, databases, web servers, shell scripts, and software written in C++ and Python.
• Experience creating system design diagrams and documentation for customer communication and long-term maintenance.
• Ability to develop scripts for automation, metrics generation, and traceability.
• Deep experience with enterprise-scale deployment practices and related operational issues.

Nice to have

• Experience with PipeDream, Airflow, and Looker.
• Proficiency in React, TypeScript, and C++, including memory management, threading, and debugging patterns.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with software engineers across AI autonomy, RTOS, middleware, and other safety-critical systems.
• Contribute to software processes based on principles from avionics, automotive, and other safety-critical industries.
• Collaborate with team leads and cross-functional engineering teams on delivery milestones and business metrics.