Zoox · 17 hours ago
Platform Engineer
Foster City, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$165K/yr - $208K/yr
5+ years expZoox is a company focused on developing autonomous vehicles, and they are seeking a highly motivated Platform Engineer to join their Systems Reliability and Stability team. This role involves ensuring the upkeep, design, and maintenance of engineering services critical to the development of autonomous vehicles, as well as overseeing the uptime of robot testing platforms.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous VehiclesMachine LearningRoboticsTransportation
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Proficiency with testing frameworks, hands-on at the system/integration level
Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), container orchestration (EKS/Kubernetes)
Linux system administration experience, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
Preferred
Built software services, wrote APIs for backend services, owned and managed full-stack applications
Experience with CI toolchains such as Bamboo, Bazel, and test frameworks such as Pytest
Experience writing and managing infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Salt
Familiarity with Python test automation frameworks and test fixture design
Experience in provisioning and managing ephemeral test environments
Benefits
Paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
Unpaid time off
Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
Amazon RSUs
Health insurance
Long-term care insurance
Long-term and short-term disability insurance
Life insurance
Company
Zoox
Zoox is an AI robotics company that provides mobility-as-a-service and self-driving car services. It is a sub-organization of Amazon.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$955MKey Investors
Grok Ventures
2020-06-26Acquired
2019-10-21Convertible Note· $200M
2018-07-08Series B· $465M
Leadership Team
Nelson Pedreiro
Sr. Vice President, Hardware
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Zheng Gao
Director of Hardware Engineering
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