Senior/Staff Software Engineer - AI/ML Models, Agents & Tools
Zoox · Foster City, CA
Posted May 5, 2026
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Senior/Staff Technical Lead role owning end-to-end integration of a tool-centric agent runtime at Zoox, connecting internal and external agent clients, line-of-business backends, and cloud operations (Kubernetes, observability, secrets). Responsibilities include translating architecture and security requirements into stable tool contracts, driving cross-functional releases, and debugging complex failures at the boundary between product, platform, and upstream systems. The role is interesting for its blend of distributed systems integration, agentic tooling, and rigorous release discipline within an autonomous vehicle company.
Job Description
As a Technical Lead on Zoox's internal agentic platform, you will own end-to-end integration of a tool-centric agent runtime with external and internal agent clients, line of business backends, scheduled and interactive agent workloads, and cloud operations (Kubernetes, observability, secrets management). You will translate architecture and security intent into stable tool contracts, testable integration milestones, and repeatable releases, and you will be the primary engineer when issues sit at the boundary between product surfaces, platform services, and upstream systems.
This role is platform and service integration for an agentic framework that mediates tools (discovery, invocation, policy, and telemetry). Success is measured by reliable tool call paths over HTTP, correct authentication and scoping, environment parity from dev through production, and clear ownership across partner engineering, security, and infrastructure teams.
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