Senior/Staff Software Engineer, HPC

Zoox · Foster City, CA

$201k - $315k

Hybrid

Full-time

Senior

Software

Posted August 10, 2026

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Zoox is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to build, scale, and operate its custom High-Performance Computing platform, which underpins development workflows for autonomy, perception, planning, prediction, and simulation. The role involves working with technologies like Ray.io, SLURM, and Kubernetes to support hundreds of thousands of concurrent distributed jobs, while defining the HPC platform strategy and leading cross-team initiatives. It offers high independence and direct impact on the productivity of every engineering team at Zoox.

Job Description

Zoox is looking for an experienced Senior/Staff Software Engineer to build, scale, and operate our custom High-Performance Computing infrastructure. As Zoox scales its autonomous vehicle development, our HPC platform must keep pace with rapidly growing compute, storage, and scheduling demands across the company. You will modernize our HPC platform—built on industry-leading technologies like Ray.io, SLURM, and Kubernetes—with a focus on reliability, scalability, and world-class developer velocity.

These HPC services form the backbone of development workflows across all Zoox software teams, from data engineering to training our AI models in Perception, Planner, Prediction, to Simulation, and more. You will have a direct impact on the productivity and effectiveness of every engineering team at Zoox.

The position comes with a high degree of independence and the opportunity to define Zoox's HPC platform strategy, both technically and organizationally. You will work closely with stakeholders in Autonomy and Software teams to understand their workload requirements and translate them into robust, scalable infrastructure.

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