Embedded Software Engineer

Zoox·Foster City, CA·Posted 31 August 2026

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Zoox is looking for an embedded software engineer to build out simulation infrastructure for our firmware. Our firmware runs on many ECUs across the robot, including the components that drive, brake, steer, and monitor the vehicle's health. Today, most of that firmware depends on hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) benches, which are expensive, hard to scale, and slow to iterate on. You will build the simulation capabilities that let firmware run in virtualized, software-in-the-loop (SIL), and hybrid SIL/HIL environments, integrated with Zoox's core simulation platform and the pipelines the rest of the autonomy stack already uses. You'll be one of the first engineers on a new embedded-focused simulation team within the Firmware organization: simulation infrastructure engineering, built by and for firmware. The work you do here will lay the groundwork for Firmware's adoption of Zoox's simulation and more advanced test platform infrastructure. It spans much of the embedded stack, from low-level BSPs, through middleware such as messaging, HALs, and OSALs, up to the application layer. You'll need to understand what embedded software optimizes for (determinism, timing, resource limits, hardware…

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