Zoox
Senior Software Systems Engineer - Security
$201K–$276K
Foster City, CA · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 5, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of experience.
- Education
- Master’s degree in CS or related engineering field.
About the job
Conduct security and safety risk analyses for Zoox products, verify risks in simulator environments, and guide engineering teams toward risk-informed decisions.
What you'll do
- Quantify security-related safety risks and align assessments with safety teams and engineering partners.
- Verify quantified risks by fuzzing real-world scenarios in simulator environments.
- Write design proposals, communicate risks, and identify ways to integrate risk metrics into company-wide frameworks.
What they ask for
- Master’s degree in CS or a related engineering field.
- 7+ years of experience.
- Strong systems engineering background and demonstrated cybersecurity expertise.
- Experience with quantitative risk assessment frameworks and risk analysis of complex embedded systems, including producing high-quality written deliverables.
Nice to have
- Experience with autonomous vehicle software stacks or large-scale evaluation pipelines.
- Familiarity with common cloud deployment architecture and frameworks.
Pay
USD 201,000–276,000 (per-year-salary) base salary
Tools
EPSS, Attack trees/graph quantification, Monte Carlo simulations, Bayesian networks
AI focus
Pragmatic adoption of AI/LLM toolchains for security analysis and authoring high-quality regulatory work products.
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