Senior Staff / Principal Software Engineer - Freeway Autonomy

The role

You will lead the work to make the autonomous vehicle drive on freeways without a human driver. You will set the technical vision, build the roadmap and drive cross-functional execution.

What you will do

• Set the technical vision and strategy for driverless freeway operation
• Build the roadmap and drive cross-functional execution
• Find the highest-risk gaps between current freeway capabilities and driver-out readiness, and lead the work to close them
• Develop algorithms for freeway driving, including architecture, design, implementation, integration, testing, and verification and validation
• Communicate technical trade-offs, risk assessments and readiness recommendations to senior and executive leadership
• Mentor engineers across the freeway program and raise the bar for high-speed autonomous driving validation

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of industry software experience
• Demonstrated technical leadership of removing the human driver from an autonomous vehicle operating on freeways or highways
• Deep technical expertise in at least one autonomy domain, such as behavior/motion planning, perception, prediction, simulation, or systems engineering
• Proven ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering efforts from ambiguity to shipped results
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical trade-offs to varied audiences including executives

Nice to have

• Experience scaling and operating a driverless service after driver removal
• Experience constructing safety cases or defining driver-out readiness criteria for high-speed autonomous driving
• Proficiency in C++

About the company

Zoox develops autonomous vehicles. This role is part of its freeway autonomy program.