Zoox is a purpose-built autonomous vehicle designed for riders, not drivers. Learn more about the Zoox robotaxi and the future of ride-hailing. Backed by Lux.
About the role
Own the roadmap, staffing, and release commitments across the team's messaging, in-vehicle network, and cloud connectivity work. Lead and grow a team of software engineers, run their performance and promotion cycles, and hire into the gaps.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, electrical / computer engineering, or equivalent experience
- 9+ years of experience in software development, with 4+ years in a leadership role managing software engineers
- Strong C++ programming experience with large code bases and technical dependencies
- A track record of driving work that spans organizational boundaries, where you did not control the people doing the work
More about this role
Zoox is building the world's most advanced self-driving hardware and software solution, and nearly every part of it depends on moving data reliably. Sensor frames to perception, planner decisions to vehicle controls, telemetry to the cloud, and remote operator video back down again. All of it crosses process, host, and network boundaries under hard latency and reliability budgets, on a vehicle that has to keep working when a link degrades or a network gets congested.
The Middleware Transport team owns that data path end to end: in-vehicle messaging (pub/sub, RPC, inter-process and inter-host transport), the vehicle's internal network, and vehicle-to-cloud connectivity. It also owns the transport and serialization abstractions the rest of the software organization builds on. Every one of those paths crosses a team boundary, so the work happens alongside firmware, product security, simulation, manufacturing, and IT, and those partners rely on this team for transport and networking depth to achieve their goals. As the team leader you will own the roadmap and the release commitments, and you will spend a real share of your time in those partnerships.
Own the roadmap, staffing, and...
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