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Contract Student Worker Software Engineer (6-month Contract) (20/hrs week)

Zoox· System Design and Mission Assurance – ZZ INACTIVE - Systems Engineering - Safety
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Hybrid (Foster City, CA)ContractPosted 11mo ago

About the role

Part-time full stack software engineer (approx. 20 hours/week) for 6 months, local students in Foster City, CA, hybrid work setup, to build tools and automation for Zoox safety metrics under mentorship.

Responsibilities

  • Help develop and implement scalable applications to automate the generation of Zoox’s safety metrics.
  • Collaborate with software engineers and PMs to build and test new features.
  • Improve existing tools by optimizing latency, CPU/memory usage, and database queries.

Qualifications

  • Exposure to SQL, Spark, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS, or Python.
  • Experience with a Front-End UI Framework (e.g., Vue, React, Svelte) or a web framework (e.g., Flask, FastAPI).
  • Comfortable using Google Suite or Microsoft Office; willing to learn tools like JIRA or Confluence.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Actively enrolled in a 2-year or 4-year college program pursuing a degree or certificate in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

Skills

Required:SQLJavaScript/TypeScriptHTML/CSSPythonFront-End UI FrameworkWeb FrameworkCommunication
Nice to have:Spark

Benefits

  • Benefits package as offered by the vendor.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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