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title: "Senior Staff / Principal Software Engineer - Freeway Autonomy"
company: "Zoox"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/zoox"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/zoox-senior-staff-principal-software-engineer-freeway-autonomy-5fc26560-03ef-4e5b-b446-aebfa283e013"
apply_url: "https://jobs.lever.co/zoox/bea6c1d0-09dc-47db-9fff-ed2f33151763"
workplace: hybrid
location: "Foster City, CA"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: principal
role: ai-machine-learning
region: united-states
skills: ["cpp"]
salary: "$340,000–$493,000 per year"
date_posted: 2026-08-31T20:13:10.748Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-04T17:44:02.837Z
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# Senior Staff / Principal Software Engineer - Freeway Autonomy

**Zoox** · Foster City, CA

Salary: $340,000–$493,000 per year

Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/zoox/bea6c1d0-09dc-47db-9fff-ed2f33151763

## About Zoox

Zoox is a purpose-built autonomous vehicle designed for riders, not drivers. Learn more about the Zoox robotaxi and the future of ride-hailing.

## About the role

Zoox is on an ambitious journey to develop a full-stack autonomous robotaxi solution, and freeways are the next frontier. We are looking for a Senior Staff or Principal Software Engineer who has played a significant role in removing the driver from an autonomous vehicle operating on freeways, and who can help Zoox navigate that same journey. You will bring deep technical expertise in a relevant autonomy domain — the specific domain is flexible — along with the hard-won judgment that comes from having taken a freeway driving program from supervised operation to driverless. This is a highly visible role with broad influence across the Autonomy organization.

##### In this role, you will:

- Guide autonomy-wide initiatives toward driverless freeway operation, including setting the technical vision and strategy, building the roadmap, and driving cross-functional execution

- Identify the highest-risk gaps between our current freeway capabilities and driver-out readiness, and lead the engineering work to close them

- Develop algorithms that enable freeway driving capabilities, spanning architecture, design, implementation, integration, testing, and verification and validation

- Communicate technical trade-offs, risk assessments, and readiness recommendations to diverse stakeholders, including senior and executive leadership

- Mentor engineers across the freeway program and raise the bar for how we design, test, and validate high-speed autonomous driving

##### Qualifications:

- 10+ years of industry software experience

- Demonstrated technical leadership of removing the human driver from an autonomous vehicle operating on freeways or highways

- Deep technical expertise in at least one autonomy domain, such as behavior/motion planning, perception, prediction, simulation, or systems engineering

- Proven ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering efforts from ambiguity to shipped results

- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical trade-offs for varied audiences including executives

##### Bonus Qualifications:

- Experience scaling and operating a driverless service after driver removal

- Experience constructing safety cases or defining driver-out readiness criteria for high-speed autonomous driving

- Proficiency in C++

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