Zoox
Zoox

Platform Engineer

$153,000 – $234,000 per year

TLDR

Improve robot testing platforms by maintaining engineering services, measuring uptime, and running compute-intensive data pipelines on CPUs and GPUs.

The SW HIL (hardware in the loop) team ensures that the testing environment for the system and subsystem improves in uptime, reliability, and feature set. To aid the adoption of our testing framework for use by other teams, the SW HIL team collaborates in test development and maintains key tests that exercise the functionality of the testing framework. 

We are seeking a highly motivated, energetic, self-starting Platform Engineer to join our Systems Reliability and Stability team. This position will be responsible for ensuring the upkeep, design, and maintenance of various engineering services. You will oversee and collaborate with other teams to ensure the high uptime of our robot testing platforms while measuring and improving their stability, accuracy, and usability.

In this role you will:

  • Responsible for measuring and maintaining the uptime of various services critical to the development of autonomous vehicles, such as testing and validation of on-vehicle software for hardware platforms.

  • Involved with all phases of rolling out various services; from design, deployment, operations, support, automation, and continuous improvement

  • Work with systems handling large volumes of data and data processing pipelines while performing compute-intensive tasks on CPUs and GPUs

  • Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, or related field 

  • 5+ years supporting in-production services, on-call rotations, and SRE responsibilities

  • Proficient in Python or Golang

  • Experience building and managing infrastructure services 

  • Experience writing code for system-level automation, building resilient infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines

  • Experience building observability stack, instrumentation, open-telemetry, grafana dashboards

  • Built software services, wrote APIs for backend services, owned and managed full-stack applications

  • Bonus Qualifications

  • Linux system administration experience, troubleshooting kernel issues, device driver development

  • Experience with continuous deployment tools, release management responsibilities

  • Experience with CI toolchains such as Buildkite, Bazel, and test frameworks such as Pytest

  • Experience writing and managing infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Salt

  • Benefits

    Equity Compensation

    Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

    Health Insurance

    life insurance

    Paid Time Off

    unpaid time off

    Stock Options

    Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights

    Zoox is building a fully autonomous vehicle fleet from the ground up, coupled with the ecosystem necessary to launch this technology into urban environments. By integrating robotics, machine learning, and innovative design, Zoox is paving the way for a new era of mobility-as-a-service.

    Founded
    Founded 2014
    Employees
    500+ employees
    Industry
    Automotive
    Total raised
    $990M raised
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