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ZooxZooxFoster City, CA

Senior Vehicle SW Deployment Engineer: Robot Software Infrastructure

Build and enhance systems that flash and update software/firmware across Zoox vehicles, sensors, compute platforms, and ECUs. Requires 7+ years Python experience, embedded Linux knowledge, and strong hardware/software debugging skills.

192k – 275k/yr
Hybrid7+ YOEEmbedded Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design and integrate deployment support for next-generation vehicle components and subsystems.
  • Enhance the core deployment framework, developer tools, instrumentation, and integrations with broader engineering systems.
  • Drive systemic improvements in deployment speed, efficiency, and mission-critical reliability.
  • Triage, debug, and resolve complex deployment failures across hardware and software boundaries.
  • Partner closely with Firmware, QA, Systems, Manufacturing, and Fleet Operations teams to ensure seamless end-to-end execution.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 7+ years of professional experience developing clean, scalable code in Python.
  • Strong working knowledge of Linux within embedded or constrained environments.
  • Familiarity with CAN or other embedded/automotive communication protocols (e.g., Ethernet, LIN).
  • Demonstrated excellence in hardware/software triage, debugging, and root-cause analysis.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Proficiency in systems-level programming languages without automatic memory management (e.g., C or C++).
  • Experience configuring or optimizing software build systems (e.g., Bazel, CMake).
  • Familiarity with manufacturing execution systems (MES) or end-of-line flashing environments.

Skills

PythonLinuxcanethernetlinCC++Bazelcmakemes
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