Senior Software Engineer, Vehicle Deployment

The role

You will design and integrate deployment support for next-generation vehicle components. You will improve the core deployment framework and resolve complex deployment failures across hardware and software. You will work with Firmware, QA, Systems, Manufacturing and Fleet Operations teams.

What you will do

• 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

Required qualifications

• 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 have

• 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

Before you apply

• You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply

About the company

Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem to bring this technology to market. It aims to provide next-generation mobility-as-a-service in urban environments.