Senior/Staff Software Engineer - AI/ML Models, Agents & Tools

The role

You will lead end-to-end integration of a tool-centric agent runtime with agent clients, line of business backends, and cloud operations on Zoox's internal agentic platform. You will be the primary engineer when issues sit at the boundary between product surfaces, platform services, and upstream systems.

What you will do

• Own and lead integration strategy and execution across hosted services, shared libraries, tool protocols (e.g., JSON-RPC over HTTP), REST APIs, and diverse callers.
• Drive cross-functional delivery with backend API teams, partner agent owners, security, SRE/platform, and program management.
• Debug and root-cause complex failures using logs, distributed traces, metrics, and gateway/session-token behavior, and document durable mitigations and runbooks.
• Define and review integration artifacts such as contracts, allowlists, registry config, environment matrices, and interface assumptions.
• Contribute to release gating, including container image promotion, configuration and secrets posture, smoke path execution, and branching/tagging for production.

Required qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, strong in integration, platform, or backend roles.
• Strong Python for production services, async I/O, and automated testing.
• Comfort working in a large monorepo with CI-driven delivery.
• Deep experience with HTTP integration (REST/JSON-RPC, TLS, debugging under load).
• Experience shipping services on Kubernetes, including deployments, health checks, and troubleshooting.
• Auth integration experience: bearer tokens, JWT validation, OAuth2/OIDC or enterprise SSO concepts, and least-privilege scoping.

Nice to have

• Exposure to Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar agent tool-calling and orchestration models.
• Observability-led integration habits: metrics, traces, structured logging, and basic SLO or dashboard thinking.
• Background in security-sensitive integrations, such as data minimization, external partner access, and review cycles with security or compliance.

Before you apply

• The posting says 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 it to market. The company works at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and design to provide mobility-as-a-service in urban environments.