Engineering Manager, Compute Optimization
Zoox · Foster City, CA
Posted April 17, 2026
Job Description
Zoox is building the world's most advanced self-driving hardware and software solution. The efficiency demands of such a system require an expert fine tuning of both the compute hardware architecture as well as the algorithms and middleware that runs on it to achieve maximum throughput at the most optimal power levels.
The Software Performance team keeps the PCU alive, healthy, and performant to ensure that our on-bot autonomy software meets its latency targets while also accommodating its safety goals.
As a Compute Optimization team leader within the Software Core Performance team, you will lead a highly specialized team of software performance engineers in aggressively optimizing on-bot software runtime. This is a high impact role that sits at the intersection of ML Platform, Core, and Autonomy Software - ensuring that efficient compute utilization is a central tenet emphasized across the organization.
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