Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Core Connectivity
Zoox · Foster City, CA
Posted November 9, 2026
AI Summary
Zoox is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to lead the Core Connectivity team, which owns the data path for its self-driving vehicles: in-vehicle pub/sub and RPC messaging, the internal vehicle network, and vehicle-to-cloud connectivity. The role involves designing low-latency C++ transport, making it resilient to crashes and network failures, building messaging APIs, evolving Protocol Buffers serialization, and setting technical direction across multiple teams. The position is interesting for its combination of deep systems engineering with real-world robotics constraints and hard reliability requirements.
Job Description
Zoox is building the world's most advanced self-driving hardware and software solution. Inside the vehicle, dozens of processes across several compute hosts exchange sensor data, perception output, planner decisions, and control commands many times a second. Every millisecond spent moving that data is a millisecond the vehicle doesn't have to react, so the transport has to be fast and predictable, and keep working when a process restarts or a host comes up late.
The Core Connectivity team owns how that data moves, and how fast: shared-memory IPC between processes, transport between hosts, serialization, the RPC and messaging patterns application teams build on, and time synchronization across hosts. Nearly every software team at Zoox builds on this layer, so you'll work closely with the teams that use it, and your work shows up directly in how the vehicle drives.
More jobs at Zoox
Senior Exterior Designer, Robot Industrial Design
Zoox · Foster City, CA · On-site · $172k - $237k
AI Workflows Intern [2027]
Zoox · Foster City, CA · On-site
AI Workflows & Safety Decision Making Intern [2027]
Zoox · Foster City, CA · On-site
Process Improvement Intern [2027]
Zoox · Foster City, CA · On-site
Safety Reporting Intern [Summer 2027]
Zoox · Foster City, CA · On-site
See how well your resume matches this job before you apply
Run a free ATS check