Senior Software Engineer - Pipeline Infrastructure & Integration

About the Role

The Software Systems Engineering team is responsible for defining SW development processes and ensuring that all safety-critical software meets a high safety bar for production vehicles.

In this role, you will design and implement methodologies, tools, and processes for safety-critical software. Borrowing principles from avionics, automotive, and other safety-critical industries, you will work with software engineers throughout the Zoox software org, ranging from state-of-the-art AI Autonomy software to highly-critical RTOS and middleware components.

Responsibilities

• Be the go-to owner for the entire SSE pipeline ecosystem (ClangTidy, ASAN/TSAN/Harden, FBInfer), keeping every pipeline running smoothly across weekly, nightly, and CI.
• Take pipelines from prototypes to fully deployed, CI-enforced systems across branches, shaping production-grade stability tooling.
• Turn raw issue data into dashboards and KPIs that provide leadership and engineering teams a clear, real-time pulse on pipeline health and software quality trends.
• Root-cause complex cross-platform and determinism issues, building instrumentation and tooling to address them.
• Help shape the future of the pipeline suite, contributing to new checker rollouts, testing strategies, and SSE infrastructure scaling.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in computer science, electrical engineering, robotics, aerospace, or related fields and 7+ years of experience working on large code bases.
• Experience developing in Bazel/Python, setting up backend infrastructure (databases, web servers, shell scripts, etc.), and interfacing with software written in C++ and Python.
• Experienced in drafting system design diagrams and documentation for customer communication and long-term maintenance.
• Comfortable creating scripts to automate tasks such as generating metrics and establishing traceability.
• Deep experience in enterprise-scale deployment practices and issues.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience working with PipeDream, Airflow, and Looker.
• Proficiency in ReactJS, TypeScript, and C++ (C++11, C++14, C++17) including memory management, threading, and common debugging patterns.