Senior/Staff Software Systems Engineer - Software Health and Complexity

The Software Systems Engineering team is responsible for defining SW development processes and ensuring that all safety-critical software meets a high safety bar for production vehicles.

In this role, you will design and implement methodologies, tools, and processes for safety-critical software that will revolutionize transportation in the 21st century. Borrowing principles from avionics, automotive, and other safety-critical industries, you will work with software engineers throughout the Zoox software org, ranging from state-of-the-art AI Autonomy software, all the way to highly-critical RTOS and middleware components.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and employ formal languages and models to describe intended software/system behaviors.
• Leverage third-party or build in-house tools to generate formal design and validation tests.
• Implement and integrate tools to verify that software/systems behave as intended.
• Integrate analysis and verification into existing processes, workflows, tools, and other infrastructure.
• Lead various systems engineering activities that are essential for a successful launch of safety-critical software on a self-driving vehicle.

Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in computer science, electrical engineering, robotics, aerospace, or related fields and 7+ years of experience.
• Strong problem-solving, leadership, and mentoring skills in a fast-paced, safety-focused environment.
• Strong formal methods background with good understanding of logic, formal languages, automata theory, and model checking
• Experience applying modeling and analysis techniques to software systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python and C++ in real-time safety-critical applications and programming language fundamentals, object-oriented programming, memory management, performance, etc.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Contributed to formal methods research and/or implementations.
• Shipped software products to market in production automobiles, aircraft, spacecraft, or other systems that require safety-critical software in embedded hardware.
• Experience with standards such as DO178, ISO26262, SPICE or ASPICE, ISO12207, IEC61508, EN50128, etc.