Platform Engineer

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Ensure the high uptime, stability, accuracy, and usability of robot testing platforms while supporting various engineering services within the SW HIL team.
The SW HIL (hardware in the loop) team ensures that the testing environment for the system and subsystem improves in uptime, reliability, and feature set. To aid the adoption of our testing framework for use by other teams, the SW HIL team collaborates in test development and maintains key tests that exercise the functionality of the testing framework.  We are seeking a highly motivated, energetic, self-starting Platform Engineer to join our Systems Reliability and Stability team. This position will be responsible for ensuring the upkeep, design, and maintenance of various engineering services. You will oversee and collaborate with other teams to ensure the high uptime of our robot testing platforms while measuring and improving their stability, accuracy, and usability. In this role you will:
  • Responsible for measuring and maintaining the uptime of various services critical to the development of autonomous vehicles, such as testing and validation of on-vehicle software for hardware platforms.
  • Involved with all phases of rolling out various services, from design, deployment, operations, support, automation, and continuous improvement
  • Work with systems handling large volumes of data and data processing pipelines while performing compute-intensive tasks on CPUs and GPUs
  • Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, or related field 
  • 5+ years supporting in-production services, on-call rotations, and SRE responsibilities
  • Proficient in Python or Golang
  • Experience building and managing infrastructure services
  • Experience writing code for system-level automation, building resilient infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines
  • Proficiency with testing frameworks, hands-on at the system/integration level
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), container orchestration (EKS/Kubernetes)
  • Linux system administration experience, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
  • Bonus Qualifications
  • Built software services, wrote APIs for backend services, owned and managed full-stack applications
  • Experience with CI toolchains such as Bamboo, Bazel, and test frameworks such as Pytest
  • Experience writing and managing infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Salt
  • Familiarity with Python test automation frameworks and test fixture design
  • Experience in provisioning and managing ephemeral test environments
  • Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

    • Health Insurance: Zoox also offers a comprehensive package of benefits, including health insurance
    • Long-term care and disability insurance: Zoox also offers long-term care insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, and life insurance.
    • Paid Time Off: Zoox also offers a comprehensive package of benefits, including paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)

    Zoox an American autonomous vehicle company currently headquartered in Foster City, California with multiple offices of operations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

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    $165,000 – $208,000 per year
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