Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer - Performance Own the performance optimization roadmap for Zoox's autonomous software stack

Location:

Foster City, California, United States

Location:

San Diego, California, United States

Location:

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Location:

Seattle, Washington, United States

Compensation: $217, USD / year

Zoox is building advanced self-driving hardware and software solutions. To attain the utmost efficiency that the system demands, we need you - an expert who understands both compute hardware architecture as well as the algorithms and middleware that run on it. Your contributions will be instrumental in achieving optimal power levels while maximizing throughput.

The Software Core Performance team's mission is to analyze, optimize, and provide guidance to the software and hardware teams to meet expected system performance targets.

As a performance software engineer within the Software Core Performance team, you will instrument, monitor, analyze, and optimize performance-critical algorithms. Your broad experience in developing, debugging, and optimizing software will enable AI software to run as efficiently as possible.

In this role, you will:

• Build real-time instrumentation for performance monitoring of the system as well as benchmarking frameworks to support offline performance evaluation.
• Create performance-optimization workflows (quick iteration loops) to evaluate and analyze performance at scale.
• Analyze profiling data to identify resource utilization hotspots and optimization opportunities.
• Propose and co-implement actionable solutions with software component teams.
• Support teams in helping to squeeze out the maximum performance of their code, while minimizing resource contention.

• 6+ years of professional experience in software development or related fields.
• Hands‑on experience in the development, debugging, and profiling of complex multi‑process real‑time systems, like game engines or robotics systems.
• Strong knowledge of C++ and experience in large code bases.
• Familiar with CPU system architecture and OS fundamentals.
• Good communication and organization skills, with a logical approach to problem‑solving, good time management, and task prioritization skills.

• Experience using various Linux performance monitor tools, such as perf, eBPF, Perfetto.
• Kernel and/or driver development experience.
• Experience with software & hardware benchmarking and Hardware‑in‑the‑Loop (HIL) systems.

$217,000 - $307,000 a year Base Salary Range There are three major components to compensation for this position: salary, Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights. A sign‑on bonus may be offered as part of the compensation package. The listed range applies only to the base salary. Compensation will vary based on geographic location and level.

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.