Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

zoox

4100

Foster City, CA, USA

Posted on: 2026-02-09

Category: emobility

Apply now

Please let zoox know you found this job on Work in Green. This will help us grow!

Apply to job

Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Senior

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Zoox is transforming mobility-as-a-service by developing a fully autonomous, purpose-built fleet designed for AI to drive and humans to enjoy.

Our Calibration, Localization, and Mapping (CLAMS) team is responsible for building the algorithms and tools necessary for keeping Zoox vehicles well calibrated, always knowing where they’re located within the world, and aware of their environment. Without precise calibration, localization, and mapping, our vehicles would be at a disadvantage when it comes to perceiving and reasoning about the surrounding world, and this is therefore foundational in enabling results from many other teams across Zoox.

This work is critical for scaling autonomous driving in a safe and reliable way. We are looking for engineers who are ambitious and excited about helping Zoox deliver on its goals to deliver autonomous mobility.

About Zoox

Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. Sitting at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and design, Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobility-as-a-service in urban environments. We’re looking for top talent that shares our passion and wants to be part of a fast-moving and highly execution-oriented team.

Accommodations

If you need an accommodation to participate in the application or interview process please reach out to [email protected] or your assigned recruiter.

A Final Note:

You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. Here at Zoox, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to be successful, and we are committed to building a team that encompasses a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

In this role, you will:

Design and develop large distributed mapping systems that process sensor data across hundreds of compute nodes

Architect scalable data pipelines and orchestration frameworks to improve system throughput and reliability

Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in distributed workloads, optimizing for latency and resource utilization

Lead technical design reviews and mentor engineers on best practices for distributed systems

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define system requirements and technical roadmaps

Contribute to all phases of the software development cycle including prototyping, requirements capture, design, implementation, and validation

Qualifications

Bachelors or higher in Computer Science or related field

6+ years of industry experience working on distributed systems

Fluency in C++ and Python

Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

Experience with AWS services (S3, EC2, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB)

Bonus Qualifications

Experience with geographic data and 3D meshes

Experience with relational databases

Background in robotics, autonomous systems, or geospatial data processing

Experience with software profiling and performance tuning

Emobility jobs More climate jobs in USA

614 Emobility jobs

Similar climate jobs

These are some of our top picks for great climate jobs on Work in Green.

View all jobs

USA

Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Configuration & Runtime Systems

zoox

4100

Full time

Full time

zoox

4100

Full time

Emobility