Validation Engineer, Feature Integration

As a Firmware Validation Engineer, you will validate firmware functionality at the component, subsystem and system level, ensuring features operate reliably within the broader vehicle platform. This includes testing embedded applications, control logic, and feature integrations across hardware interfaces, sensors, and actuators to confirm they meet functional, performance, and safety requirements. Your work directly impacts the quality and readiness of customer-facing features by catching issues early, improving integration stability, and ensuring smooth delivery of these features to internal customers. Through close collaboration with firmware developers, systems engineers and cross-functional teams, you will help deliver robust and reliable features to production. In this role, you will: Define and develop comprehensive test plans based on requirements, trace testcases to requirements, set pass/fail criteria and refine requirements based on test outcomes Develop and implement test plans on multiple test layers (HiL, Dyno, Vehicle) Define tooling needs to execute tests and evaluate results efficiently Collaborate with system, firmware & hardware engineers to ensureimplementations meet requirements and desired functionality in accordance withproduct requirements. Investigate firmware issues through data analysis and issue reproduction Qualifications BS degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer or Systems Engineering 4+ years of experience in developing or testing embedded software Test automation with Python or other scripting languages Experience writing code with source control (Git) Hands-on technical experience debugging complex systems involving networked microprocessors and software-controlled electrical or electromechanical devices Experience parsing and analyzing log data/source code and identifying rootcause. Positive attitude, team player, and abil

Zoox is on an ambitious journey to develop a full-stack autonomous mobility solution. This role will be a part of a team to expand Zoox’s autonomous mobility to new geofences. We are looking for a Software Engineer to improve and develop autonomous driving capabilities in new conditions. In this role, you will: Design behavioral and motion planning algorithms to improve driving behavior in new geofences and implement those designs in our code base. Adapt existing algorithms and software modules for autonomous driving in new geofences. Integrate and test your developed applications in the robot, learn, and make improvements. Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to support the integration and validation of software components and features for geofence expansion. Support or lead vehicle testing to generate actionable feedback on driving performance. Write and file patents for novel technologies you develop. Qualifications Master's degree in Computer Science or related field and 3+ years of experience Proficient in C++ programming Proven experience in at least one of the following domains: behavioral planning, motion planning, or mission planning for autonomous vehicles Bonus Qualifications Experience with behavioral and motion planning for high-speed autonomous driving Experience with autonomous robots and machine learning or data-driven development processes

About the Team The End-to-End (E2E) Feature and Homologation team brings systems engineering focus and discipline to Zoox mobility-as-a-service deployment and operations. We are systems engineers working with key business stakeholders to define and deliver remarkable product capabilities that span across Vehicle, Autonomy, and Operations segments. We partner with the systems teams from each domain by leveraging their deep technical knowledge, implementation expertise, and validation techniques to deliver a fully verified product capability. The result is E2E ownership of a world-class mobility service. About the Role E2E Feature Engineers are the champions of their feature domains, which cut across Vehicle, Autonomy, and Operations segments of the Zoox mobility service. You will be responsible for developing Fail-Operational capabilities of the Zoox mobility service. Through strong relationships with internal stakeholders (Product, Safety, Operations, Legal, etc.) and other systems engineers, you will deliver: design solutions, systems engineering documentation, multi-quarter capability plans, verification plans, and debug support. In This Role, You Will Lead the design of Fail-Operational behaviors while balancing safety, reliability, and operational efficiency. Partner with the functional safety team to identify product risks and quantify fail-operational performance. Own the outcome for the design and implementation of features with Hardware, Software, Operations, IT, Safety, Manufacturing, and Validation teams throughout the entire V cycle. Create and maintain high-quality and verifiable requirements and model-based designs, decomposing input from stakeholders to drive clarity and precision for systems specifications. Lead triage with cross-functional stakeholders for bugs or reported issues. Qualifications 8 years of engineering work experience, alongside a Bachelor's degree in

Zoox is on an ambitious journey to develop a full-stack autonomous mobility solution for cities and safely deploy such a robotaxi solution. The System Design and Mission Assurance (SDMA) team plays a foundational role in the company's success, responsible for constructing the safety case and fail-operational design for our autonomous driving robots before public road deployment. We are seeking a highly motivated software development engineer in test (SDET). This role is central to leading the creation of automation frameworks, tools, and processes for platform safety clearance and system testing. The ideal candidate is passionate about developing high-quality, robust, optimized, and reusable software infrastructure, and is eager to advance their skills in complex systems thinking and validation problem-solving. Some examples of tools this role has supported in the past: * Front and back end of Streamlit web-app to automate tracking requirements to test case traceability. * Automation framework for execution of safety critical tests. * CI/CD job to identify affected requirements and HIL tests from code changes and automate the execution of all linked tests. In this role, you will: Create tools and web-apps to help us automate and streamline manual clearance processes. Propose tools and/or feature ideas to the team to improve processes. Develop software for automated validation frameworks for system level testing in Hardware In the Loop (HIL), simulation environments, and post-processing of test data. Develop and maintain dashboards to illustrate progress against targets and highlight focus areas. Execute, triage, and debug automated verification and validation system tests. Qualifications B.S. or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related technical degree. Experience developing automated test frameworks and tools for

The Collision Avoidance System (CAS) is responsible for detecting and reacting to imminent collision situations in support of our vehicle’s overall safety goals. CAS Perception is responsible for processing raw sensor data from our vehicle’s world-class sensor suite using a combination of geometric, interpretable algorithms and deep learning to detect near-collisions with obstacles along our intended driving path, in the most challenging dense urban environments and under tight compute resource constraints. Overall CAS is parallel and complementary to our Main Artificial Intelligence (AI) autonomy stack, and has a close relationship with our vehicle hardware and safety teams in order to architect redundancy into our overall driving system. The CAS Verification & Validation (CAS V&V) is a multidisciplinary team data, software and systems engineers defining and building metrics to measure the Collision Avoidance System performance and work with the Systems Design and Mission Assurance (SDMA) and QA teams to develop validation plans for the features. In this role, you will: Apply distributed computing algorithms to analyze petabytes of urban driving data. Develop metrics and tools to analyze errors and system improvements. Work closely with CAS engineers to evaluate system performance. Collaborate with Perception engineers to define metrics for autonomous driving. Partner with Planning engineers to measure performance in complex urban environments. Qualifications: BS, MS, or PhD degree in computer science or a related field Fluency in C++ and/or Python Extensive experience with programming and algorithm design Bonus Qualifications: Experience with analysis of latency for safety-critical software systems Experience with petabyte-scale distributed computing (Spark, Databricks, generic MapReduce pipelines) <li

Our Mapping team is responsible for building the algorithms and tools necessary to keep Zoox vehicles well calibrated, always aware of their location in the world, and aware of their environment. Without precise calibration, localization, and mapping, our vehicles would be at a disadvantage in perceiving and reasoning about the surrounding world, and this is therefore foundational to enabling results from many other teams across Zoox. This work is critical to scaling autonomous driving safely and reliably. We are looking for engineers who are ambitious and excited about helping Zoox achieve its goals of delivering autonomous mobility. The Road Network Interface team owns road network data definition and data products for all consumers, including developer workflows, in-cluster training jobs, and on-vehicle real-time access. We are seeking a Software Engineer to develop the geometry algorithms behind these data products and the interfaces consumers use to access them - including network topology, road network data format, and validation. In this role, you will... Develop and maintain the geometry algorithms that power our map data interfaces. Implement and maintain key parts of our mapping data format, validation frameworks, post-processing pipelines, and interfaces consumed by downstream customers. Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Zoox to ship features and grow the APIs that downstream consumers depend on. Create design documentation, test plans, and other supporting artifacts for the work you ship. Contribute to all phases of the software development cycle, including prototyping, requirements capture, design, implementation, and validation. Qualifications Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science or related field 3+ years of relevant industry experience Proficiency in C++ Strong