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# Embedded Software Engineer - MCU Platforms

- **Company:** Zoox
- **Location:** San Diego, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Booting (BIOS), C++ (Programming Language), Embedded Software, Firmware, Real-Time Operating Systems, System Programming, Strategies of Testing
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f1c4c3c96a010726

## About the Role

+ C/C++ development
 + Systems programming in a real-time (RTOS) environment
 + Understanding RTOS platform development
 + Understanding how to link software/firmware to hardware
 + Understanding how bootloaders on MCUs generally work, * Python development
 * Network/CAN programming experience
 * Extensive bootloader experience
 * MCU Security

## Description

* Develop on-vehicle embedded software/firmware in C and C++ in a real-time environment, and as appropriate, the supporting tools to tie it to Zoox's ecosystem of off-vehicle infrastructure (Python in most cases)
 * Author requirements and design documentation to craft what is to be built, why it needs to be that way, and what your specific solution looks like
 * Work with our Component V&V Engineers to keep the quality bar high through the coordination of test strategies
 * Troubleshoot and root-cause problems from the field, starting at the system level, often ending deep in the inner workings of our platform


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