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Software Systems Engineer - Security

Zoox· Software – Software Systems
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Hybrid (Foster City, CA)$161k - $242kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Role focusing on structured security analyses of Zoox products across the System Development Life Cycle, with emphasis on risk assessment, verification, and cross-functional collaboration to balance safety and security objectives.

Responsibilities

  • Perform Risk Assessment by quantifying security related safety risks, collaborating with cross functional teams particularly safety teams to ensure alignment with safety and security objectives while supporting risk-informed engineering decisions.
  • Drive verification of quantified risks by fuzzing real world scenarios in simulator environments.
  • Write design proposals and drive execution while proactively communicating risks to partner teams.
  • Proactively identify opportunities to roll up risk metrics into various company wide frameworks.
  • Interface with a multitude of engineering teams within Product Security as well as across software and hardware engineering. Build and maintain a strong understanding of the underlying engineering constraints and factor that understanding into the analysis and recommendations.

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in CS or related engineering field (software, hardware, systems) and 3+ years of experience
  • A strong general systems engineering background along with a demonstrated passion and concrete expertise in cybersecurity
  • Prior experience with quantitative risk assessment frameworks (eg: EPSS, Attack trees/graph quantification, Monte Carlo simulations, Bayesian networks)
  • Prior experience with the risk analysis of complex embedded systems and a demonstrated skill in turning the analysis into high-quality written deliverables
  • Pragmatic adoption of AI/LLM toolchains for security analysis and authoring high quality regulatory work products

Skills

Required:Risk assessmentFuzz testing in simulator environmentsDesign proposal drafting
Nice to have:Risk metric aggregation

Benefits

  • 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
  • life insurance
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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