Hybrid Software Systems Engineer – Software Health and Complexity

at Zoox

• Job title: Software Systems Engineer – Software Health and Complexity
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior
• Salary: $185,000 - $260,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Postgraduate Degree
• Tech skills: Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Foster City, United States

About the role

• Software Systems Engineer involved in defining SW development processes for safety-critical software. Collaborating with engineers on AI Autonomy software and RTOS components for autonomous vehicles.

Responsibilities

• Develop and employ formal languages and models to describe intended software/system behaviors.
• Leverage third-party or build in-house tools to generate formal design and validation tests.
• Implement and integrate tools to verify that software/systems behave as intended.
• Integrate analysis and verification into existing processes, workflows, tools, and other infrastructure.
• Lead various systems engineering activities that are essential for a successful launch of safety-critical software on a self-driving vehicle.

Requirements

• Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in computer science, electrical engineering, robotics, aerospace, or related fields and 1+ year of experience.
• Strong problem-solving, leadership, and mentoring skills in a fast-paced, safety-focused environment.
• Strong formal methods background with good understanding of logic, formal languages, automata theory, and model checking
• Experience applying modeling and analysis techniques to software systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python and C++ in real-time safety-critical applications and programming language fundamentals, object-oriented programming, memory management, performance, etc.

Benefits

• paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
• unpaid time off
• Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
• Amazon RSUs
• health insurance
• long-term care insurance
• long-term and short-term disability insurance
• life insurance