Senior Staff/Principal Software Engineer - GPU System Software, Onboard Execution
- Location
- Foster City, CA · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Director
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Listed
- 18 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- GPU system software development
- software performance engineering
- compute resource allocation (CPU/GPU/memory/accelerators)
- real-time or latency-sensitive systems
- technical team leadership
Also useful
- autonomous driving stack experience
- ML platform or inference optimization
- power and thermal optimization
- safety-critical software development
- hardware architecture knowledge
About Zoox
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 main onboard computer healthy and performant to ensure that our on-bot autonomy software meets its latency targets while also accommodating its safety goals. We are responsible for the efficient allocation of onboard compute resources (CPU/GPU/Memory/accelerators) ensuring contention is minimized and the autonomy stack executes harmoniously.
As the Onboard Execution team leader within the 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.
From Zoox's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 22, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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