Zoox
Senior Software Systems Engineer - Security
Foster City, CA. Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will run structured security analyses of Zoox products and apply security standards across the development life cycle. You will quantify safety-related security risks, verify them through fuzzing in simulator environments, and write design proposals.
What you will do
- Perform risk assessment by quantifying security-related safety risks
- Work with cross-functional teams, especially safety teams, on safety and security objectives
- Drive verification of quantified risks by fuzzing real-world scenarios in simulator environments
- Write design proposals and drive their execution
- Communicate risks proactively to partner teams
- Identify opportunities to roll up risk metrics into company-wide frameworks
- Work with engineering teams across Product Security, software and hardware, and factor engineering constraints into analysis
Required qualifications
- Master's degree in CS or a related engineering field (software, hardware, systems) and 7+ years of experience
- Strong general systems engineering background
- Demonstrated passion and concrete expertise in cybersecurity
- Prior experience with quantitative risk assessment frameworks (e.g., EPSS, attack trees/graph quantification, Monte Carlo simulations, Bayesian networks)
- Prior experience with risk analysis of complex embedded systems
- Skill in turning analysis into high-quality written deliverables
- Pragmatic adoption of AI/LLM toolchains for security analysis and authoring regulatory work products
Nice to have
- Experience with the autonomous vehicle software stack (e.g., perception, prediction, planning)
- Experience implementing large-scale evaluation pipelines
- Familiarity with common cloud deployment architecture and frameworks
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 it to market. It aims to provide next-generation mobility-as-a-service in urban environments.