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Senior / Staff Software Engineer - Motion Planning

Zoox is hiring for Senior / Staff Software Engineer - Motion Planning in Foster City, CA. Staff level. First seen August 6, 2026; open as of November 13, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Zoox
Where
Foster City, CA
Level
Staff
First seen
August 6, 2026
Listed via
Lever

What the posting says

Together, you will create the next generation of algorithmic improvements to expand our robot’s ability to drive in some of the most complex situations found on public roads. Safety is foundational at Zoox, so you will take a measured approach – develop a principled modification to the Planner, test in simulation and on closed courses, and team up with our safety drivers for on-road testing. In this role, you will: Create principled algorithmic improvements to specific areas of driving behavior and implement those changes in our code base. Use our extensive backend tooling to test your…

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