Zoox
Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Planner Frameworks Pipeline
$254K–$350K
Foster City, CA +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 16, 2026
- Location
- Foster City, CA
San Francisco, CA - Experience
- 8+ years of industry experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
About the job
Builds and improves large-scale simulation and validation pipelines that help autonomy engineers test self-driving vehicle behavior.
What you'll do
- Improve the cost efficiency, reliability, and performance of validation and simulation pipelines.
- Create production-grade APIs, SDKs, and tools for validating autonomous behaviors.
- Improve ML training pipelines supporting the autonomous behavior organization.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Experience optimizing large-scale distributed systems for cost and efficiency.
- Experience with AWS or similar providers.
- Proficiency with Python and familiarity with C++.
Nice to have
- Exposure to machine-learning workloads from a cost-optimization perspective; background in algorithmic optimization or performance investigation.
- Experience with Ray.io, particularly Ray Core and Ray Data; understanding of the robotic data lifecycle.
Pay
USD 254,000–350,000 per-year salary (base salary)
Tools
Ray.io, Kubernetes, AWS, Python, C++, Ray Core, Ray Data
AI focus
Improves simulation, validation, and ML training pipelines supporting autonomous behavior development.
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