CI Platform Engineer (AI)

Location: Foster City, California, United States; Workplace: Hybrid

Base salary: $219,000–$271,000 per year, plus potential RSUs, stock appreciation rights, and sign-on bonus.

Company

Zoox develops fully autonomous vehicles, robotaxis, and the supporting mobility ecosystem, combining robotics, machine learning, and software.

What you will do

• Own the performance, cost efficiency, and reliability of CI systems running thousands of builds daily.
• Improve CI failure analysis, triage, developer support, and incident response using modern AI tools.
• Identify integration bottlenecks across software teams and resolve them at the platform level.
• Enable engineering teams to operate efficient and reliable CI workflows.
• Set technical standards for CI development and operations while mentoring engineers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering and programming experience, including significant platform, infrastructure, or developer tooling experience.
• Hands-on experience operating distributed CI systems at scale, preferably Buildkite, or Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• Working familiarity with modern build systems such as Bazel, including caching and remote execution in CI.
• Solid knowledge of version control systems such as Git.
• Strong problem-solving skills, self-direction, and work ethic.

Nice to have

• Cloud compute cost analysis, AWS EC2 instance families, spot instances, and right-sizing.
• Experience with large monorepos and merge queues.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform, Helm, or Ansible.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and containers.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment in Foster City.
• Paid time off, including sick leave, vacation, and bereavement leave.
• Health, long-term care, disability, and life insurance.
• Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights and Amazon Restricted Stock Units.
• Opportunity to work on autonomous vehicle technology and next-generation urban mobility.