# Automation Engineer - Compute Software Performance

Zoox is building advanced self-driving hardware and software solutions. To attain the utmost efficiency that the system demands, we need you - an expert who understands both compute hardware architecture as well as the algorithms and middleware that run on it. Your contributions will be instrumental in finding & detecting performance-related trends and anomalies across the robot fleet. The Software Performance team’s mission is to analyze, optimize and provide guidance to the software and hardware teams in order to meet expected system performance & stability targets. As an automation engineer within the Software Performance team, you will build automated instrumentation, benchmarking and analysis for compute performance (CPU, GPU, latency and memory) into the software development and release process. Your work will catch performance regressions before software reaches the fleet, identify trends and anomalies across releases and hardware platforms, and put detailed performance data at the fingertips of performance experts for quick and efficient investigations. In this role, you will: Automate common workflows & processes for performance data storage and analysis (CPU, GPU, latency

- **Id**: 4297555
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zoox-automation-engineer-compute-software-performance>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Foster City, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T22:09:55Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T02:00:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2498
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Autonomous Driving, Smart Mobility, Automotive Manufacturing, Ride Hailing

## Company

- **Id**: 3626
- **Name**: Zoox
- **Domain**: zoox.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zoox>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 72
- **Open postings**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.925
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 87
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 196000
- **Max**: 242000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 242000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Buildkite** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Looker** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T02:00:53Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 373 · green card filings: 120; Filings 12m: 373

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 85
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T04:06:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 242000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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