Senior Software Engineer - Simulaton Scenario Automation

Simulation is essential to Zoox’s mission. Zoox uses simulation to develop our driving software, validate safety, and analyze our real-world performance. Our team’s work directly impacts how rapidly and successfully Zoox will achieve its goals. Come help us build world-class simulation tools and establish the standard for safety in autonomous vehicles!

We are looking for engineers with strong coding skills and exceptional design and implementation skills at the system and component level. You will be helping create scenario generation tools that blur the line between real and synthetic, closing the gap between real driving and hand-authored scenarios. Together, we’ll build a highly-scalable automated architecture used by mission assurance and autonomy engineers to continuously improve the safety and reliability of our robots.

In this role, you will:

• Develop platform for large scale generation and analysis of autonomous driving scenarios for simulation
• Collaborate on the design and implementation of our simulation-based safety validation and analysis pipeline
• Work closely with various teams across the company, like Simulation, AI software, QA, and Validation, to realize Zoox’s ambitious autonomous driving goals

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant field
• Expertise with large-scale Python projects
• Great communication, cross-team collaboration skills, ability to work independently: self-motivated, inventive, organized and efficient
• Background in machine learning, statistics, or data science
• 5+ years’ experience in a related field

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience with database, data storage, data visualization, and data analytics systems
• Professional experience working in C++, Kotlin and/or TypeScript
• Experience in game development, traffic simulation, or motion planning, and relevant math skills like linear algebra and trigonometry

Compensation
There are three major components to compensation for this position: salary, Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights. The salary will range from $195,000 - $245,000. A sign-on bonus may be part of a compensation package. Compensation will vary based on geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Zoox also offers a comprehensive package of benefits including 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, and life insurance.