Software Engineer Intern, Autonomy Software (Autonomous Driving)

Location: Hybrid in Foster City, California, US; ability to relocate to the Bay Area, California, for the internship required.

Salary: $6,500–$10,500 per month.

Company

Zoox is developing a fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting mobility ecosystem, combining robotics, machine learning, and design.

What you will do

• Work on research or advanced engineering problems across autonomy behaviors, perception, guidance and routing, or collision avoidance.
• Design, build, and evaluate algorithms or machine learning models for an autonomous driving system.
• Train and test models on large-scale driving and simulation data and analyze failure modes.
• Write production-quality C++ and Python code through code review.
• Present technical results to the team and at the end-of-summer project showcase, contributing to publishable research where permitted.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing an M.S. or Ph.D. in computer science, robotics, electrical engineering, or a related engineering program.
• Expected graduation between Fall 2027 and Summer 2028 and enrollment at an accredited college or university throughout the internship.
• Full-time commitment for a 12-week internship beginning in May or June 2027.
• Ability to relocate to the Bay Area, California, for the duration of the internship.
• Strong programming skills in C++ and/or Python.
• Solid computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with PyTorch, Jax, TensorFlow, and NumPy.
• Experience in at least one of machine learning, computer vision, motion planning, controls, prediction, or mapping.
• Ability to communicate technical results clearly.
• Proprietary information from the internship may not be used in a thesis, published university work, or distributed outside Zoox.

Nice to have

• Publications in top machine learning or robotics conferences such as NeurIPS, CVPR, or ICRA.
• Experience with autonomous driving or learned robotic planning.
• Experience with large-scale, multi-node training workloads.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on work on real autonomy projects with mentorship.
• Projects may contribute to the software running on Zoox vehicles and in simulation.
• Medical insurance and a relocation stipend may be available.
• Work takes place in a fast-moving, highly execution-oriented environment.