TL;DR
Software Systems Engineer (Middleware & Diagnostics): Participating in building the Zoox robotaxi with an accent on SW development processes. Focus on defining diagnostics strategies and appropriate system reactions to ensure robust, safe, and maintainable operation.
Location: Hybrid, Foster City, CA
Salary: $185,000 - $230,000 a year
Company
Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market.
What you will do
- Act as a cross-functional bridge between middleware developers, and safety teams to ensure aligned design decisions and requirements.
- Develop and maintain a holistic architectural view of the middleware stack, including dependencies, interfaces and potential failure paths, for various compute platforms.
- Help evolve and strengthen the middleware and diagnostics architecture by identifying improvement opportunities.
- Define and implement component and system level diagnostics strategy, including fault detection, reporting, logging and traceability.
- Analyze fault propagation scenarios across components and help design mitigations that improve system availability and safety.
- Generate and track fault metrics on a regular cadence.
Requirements
- B.S./M.S./PhD in Engineering, Physics or relevant field and 5+ years of experience
- Strong experience in middleware, ideally in embedded or distributed systems
- Strong communication skills with the ability to translate architectural and safety considerations into actionable engineering requirements
- Demonstrated ability to apply software engineering best practices
- Experience working in cross-functional environments involving platform, safety and software teams
Nice to have
- Hands on experience with design and implementation of diagnostic systems such as health monitoring, fault reduction or logging frameworks
- C++, MATLAB, Python
- Experience on Safety-Critical Systems
Culture & Benefits
- Comprehensive package of benefits, including paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement), unpaid time off, Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights, Amazon RSUs, health insurance, long-term care insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, and life insurance.