Zoox
Staff/Senior Staff Software Engineer - Product Security
$292K–$375K
Foster City, CA · Hybrid · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in security engineering, including significant time in an architect, staff, or technical lead capacity.
About the job
Leads product security architecture and strategy across Zoox’s autonomous vehicle fleet, including embedded systems, vehicle networks, cloud, and supporting infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Own the multi-year security architecture and roadmap for robots and fleet systems.
- Partner with engineering teams on security-by-design and lead threat modeling and architecture reviews.
- Set security standards and guardrails, and represent product security in cross-functional and leadership discussions.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of security engineering experience, including significant time in an architect, staff, or technical lead capacity.
- Deep expertise in embedded/IoT security, including secure boot, TPM/TEE, cryptographic key management, and hardened firmware/OS design.
- Experience architecting security for complex physical or cyber-physical systems.
- Track record driving cross-functional technical strategy and influencing engineering leadership; solid understanding of network security, cloud security, and secure software development lifecycle practices.
Nice to have
- Experience securing autonomous vehicles, robotics platforms, or other safety-critical connected systems at scale.
- Offensive security background, or contributions to industry standards, published research, or conference talks in embedded/IoT/automotive security.
Pay
USD 292,000–375,000 (per-year-salary) — base salary
Tools
AWS, TPM/TEE
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