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Staff Software Engineer, HPC

Zoox· Software – Software Systems
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Hybrid (Foster City, CA / Boston, MA / Seattle, WA)$201k - $315kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer to build, scale, and operate Zoox's custom High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure, modernizing the platform with focus on reliability, scalability, and developer velocity across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement core services and abstractions for distributed compute infrastructure supporting hundreds of thousands of concurrent jobs
  • Work with customer teams and other infrastructure teams to build a multiyear software engineering roadmap for the HPC platform
  • Lead multi-quarter, cross team initiatives that drive org-wide improvements
  • Create production-grade APIs, SDKs, and tools that make it easy for engineers across Zoox to run large-scale distributed workloads
  • Design and improve job scheduling algorithms and auto-scaling policies to maximize reliability and resource availability
  • Design multi-region orchestration strategies that optimize for data locality, reliability, and performance
  • Identify and resolve systemic reliability and performance issues through profiling, analysis, and collaboration with workload owners across multiple teams
  • Evaluate new technologies and paradigms that improve Zoox's computational and storage capabilities
  • Develop capacity planning tools and forecasting models to support Zoox's growing compute needs
  • Mentor junior engineers, guiding them through their career development

Qualifications

  • Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production
  • Experience with Ray.io, particularly Ray Core and Ray Data (or equivalent technologies)
  • Experience with Kubernetes, particularly for heterogeneous workloads
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS or similar providers
  • Track record of shipping and operating reliable, highly available scalable infrastructure
  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize development work and build cross-functional consensus around technical tradeoffs
  • Proficiency with Python

Skills

Required:Distributed systems design and operationRay.io (Ray Core and Ray Data)Kubernetes (heterogeneous workloads)Cloud infrastructure (AWS or similar)Python

Benefits

  • Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
  • Amazon RSUs
  • health insurance
  • long-term care insurance
  • long-term and short-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid time off (sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
  • unpaid time off
  • sign-on bonus may be offered
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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