Software Engineer – Behavior Capabilities

Job overview

The Software Engineer – Behavior Capabilities role is onsite in Foster City, CA, with a base salary of $199,000–$270,000 annually. The engineer supports Zoox's Fail Operational Planning team, which works to keep its robot operating effectively despite minor failures or degraded capabilities. The role develops and implements behavioral and motion-planning algorithms for complex driving scenarios. These improvements help mitigate system performance degradation and support trip progress, vehicle uptime, and customer experience through collaboration across the driving stack.

What you'll do

• Develop algorithmic improvements to driving behavior and implement them in the codebase
• collaborate across functions on strategies to mitigate performance degradation under system failure modes
• architect scalable solutions integrated with the driving stack
• partner with validation teams to define and execute tests.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

software engineer

behavior capabilities

foster city ca

zoox

full-time

c++

motion planning

driving behavior

autonomous vehicles

vehicle kinematics

$199k–$270k annually

fail operational planning

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Paid time off, including sick leave, vacation, and bereavement
• unpaid time off
• stock appreciation rights
• Amazon RSUs
• health insurance
• long-term care insurance
• short- and long-term disability insurance
• life insurance.

Why this role

Requires a master's degree in computer science or related field, C++ fluency, algorithm design experience, vehicle-kinematics understanding, and four or more years of related experience. PhD and product-shipping experience are bonus qualifications.

About the employer

Zoox is hiring for this role. Industry: Custom Computer Programming Services. Sector: 54.