Senior Software Engineer - Autonomy Safety Metric
Zoox · Foster City, CA
Posted November 12, 2026
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Zoox is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Behavior Evaluation team, which measures the safety of its autonomous driving stack by quantifying unexpected vehicle stops and mapping them to collision risk. The role involves owning and scaling the PySpark/Databricks data pipelines that produce weekly per-geofence safety estimates, turning statistical methods into tested and auditable code, and building tools to reduce manual work. The position is interesting for its direct impact on AV safety metrics and its collaboration with engineers and researchers as Zoox expands to new cities.
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