# Senior Vehicle SW Deployment Engineer: Robot Software Infrastructure

**Company:** [Zoox](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zoox)
**Location:** Foster City, CA
**Role:** Embedded Engineering
**Salary:** $192k – $275k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Python, Linux, can, ethernet, lin, C, C++, Bazel, cmake, mes
**Posted:** 2026-07-08

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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