# Senior Staff/Principal Software Engineer - GPU System Software, Onboard Execution at Zoox

- Company: Zoox
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://zoox.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Foster City, CA
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $339K to $455K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-22
- Apply by: 2026-12-06
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/zoox/a30574c9-8ef3-408f-bc85-39aad54ad115?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zoox-senior-staff-principal-software-engineer-gpu-system-software-onboard-execut/

## About the role

You will join Zoox's Software Performance organization, which owns end-to-end performance of the onboard software stack: profiling and observability, GPU compute, and compute platform. You will work closely with Perception, Prediction, Planning, ML Infrastructure, and Hardware teams, and you will be a senior technical voice for onboard compute across the company. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Deep CUDA platform (programming model, runtime, and driver) and NVIDIA GPU microarchitecture expertise (Ampere through Blackwell, Orin, Thor)
- Proven record setting technical direction and delivering large, measurable end-to-end gains in latency, utilization, or cost
- Working knowledge of ML inference optimization (TensorRT, XLA, Triton, quantization, fusion) and expert C++ on Linux
- Ability to align ML, systems, hardware, and leadership on a shared technical plan

Tags: Software Systems

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