Staff or Principal Software Engineer

Zoox
United States
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
10 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Systems Engineering C++ (Programming Language) Motion Planning Verification and Validation (Software)

Job description

  • Guide autonomy-wide initiatives toward driverless freeway operation, including setting the technical vision and strategy, building the roadmap, and driving cross-functional execution
  • Identify the highest-risk gaps between our current freeway capabilities and driver-out readiness, and lead the engineering work to close them
  • Develop algorithms that enable freeway driving capabilities, spanning architecture, design, implementation, integration, testing, and verification and validation
  • Communicate technical trade-offs, risk assessments, and readiness recommendations to diverse stakeholders, including senior and executive leadership
  • Mentor engineers across the freeway program and raise the bar for how we design, test, and validate high-speed autonomous driving

Requirements

  • 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 translate complex technical trade-offs for varied audiences including executives, * 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++

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