Automation Engineer - Compute Software Performance

The role

You will automate workflows for storing and analyzing performance data such as CPU, GPU, latency and memory. You will build an agentic harness to help triage performance issues and make dense performance metrics usable across the software organization. You will work with cross-functional teams on the software that powers the vehicle's autonomy systems.

What you will do

• Automate common workflows and processes for performance data storage and analysis (CPU, GPU, latency, memory, etc.)
• Build an agentic harness to support efficient triage and investigation of performance issues, with iterative loops for self-optimization
• Make dense performance metrics accessible to the software organization for release monitoring and gating, and for agent-driven optimization loops
• Integrate performance tooling with Zoox continuous integration and release management processes
• Support releases by triaging latency and memory regressions with application teams

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in software development or related fields
• BS in computer science or a related field
• Strong knowledge of Python
• Proficiency in C++
• Experience in large code bases
• Expertise in continuous integration systems (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
• Experience using LLMs and agentic AI to automate engineering workflows
• Good communication and organizational skills
• Logical approach to problem-solving
• Good time management and task prioritization skills

Nice to have

• Proficiency with Git and Bazel
• Experience with software and hardware benchmarking and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) systems
• Savvy with efficient SQL queries and data platforms such as Databricks, Looker, and ETL pipelines

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.