Release Manager
Autonomous vehicles have some of the largest, most complex software ever shipped in a safety-critical environment. Solving that problem is one of the most exciting technical challenges of our lifetime. As part of the Release Management team at Zoox, you will own all aspects of the software release process and help accelerate our product development by leading various weekly / fortnightly / monthly releases focused on ensuring we are shipping the safest and most reliable software possible.
As developers build new features, the release management team will be responsible for tracking and knowing the content of each release, updating testing strategies, measuring system performance, and escalating issues seen during on-vehicle and offline testing. These efforts are critical to maintaining our code quality and ensuring our service capabilities are operating as intended. You will coordinate with cross-divisional teams to accelerate releases, increase the quality of our autonomous driving products, and optimize resource efficiency. Your ability to understand the overall system design and component interaction to help guide test methodology for functional and safety sign-off is crucial to the overall success of the release team. Accountability and integrity are core to Zoox teams.
In this role, you will:
Work with all stakeholders in Development, QA, and vehicle operations to assemble cross-organizational project teams, tracking progress and delivering towards release milestones
Track results of all required tests, analyze release blockers, and enable successful resolution
Continuously evaluate the efficiency of existing processes and procedures of change and release management and improve practices
Automation of existing manual release processes
Change management, scoping, conduct release reviews, communicate status to all stakeholders, escalation as per the SLAs
Qualifications:
3-5+ years of experience working with large, complex products
Understanding of software version control systems, extensive knowledge of git and command line
Excellent communication (Written and Verbal) and organizational skills
Experience in defining release readiness criteria, ensuring all changes meet criteria prior to deployment
You had a manual & boring process and you automated it using Python or any other programming language & using AI tools
Bonus Qualifications:
Experience with CI build systems and ability to triage failures
Experience working on large process improvement and/or automation projects and programs
Broad understanding of programming structure (makefiles, headers, code) and compilation process (compile, link) experience with multi-platform (Unix, Windows, etc.) build environments
Fluency in any programming language and using AI tools like cursor, claude, co-pilot, chatGPT, etc.