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Automation Engineer - Compute Software Performance

Zoox

  • Foster City, CA
  • Posted yesterday
  • Full-time
  • Hybrid
  • $196,000–$242,000 a year

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At a glance

Zoox is hiring an Automation Engineer - Compute Software Performance in Foster City, CA. It is a full-time hybrid role in Software & IT, asking for at least 3 years of experience. The advertised pay is $196,000–$242,000 a year. The description mentions CI/CD, Python, C++, Git, Jenkins and Generative AI. Zoox has 99 other openings in the US, 89 of them in Foster City, CA. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 61 Software & IT openings in Foster City, CA today; the typical one asks for 7 years and advertises about $240,000 a year at the midpoint.

CI/CDPythonC++GitJenkinsGenerative AISQLDatabricks

How the pay compares

Zoox advertises $196,000 to $242,000 a year, a midpoint of $219,000 a year. Where an offer lands in a range usually depends on experience and on the exact location. That is higher than about 53% of the 1,245 software & IT jobs in California that publish a yearly rate on USA Jobs 24, where the typical midpoint is $214,000 a year. To see roughly what this leaves after federal and California tax, try our take-home pay calculator.

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How often each skill named in this advert appears across the 4,388 software & IT jobs we list today. Python is the most widely requested (30% of jobs), while Databricks is the least common (1%). Widely requested skills are what employers expect as a baseline; rarer ones show what is special about this job.

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  1. Hybrid. Based in Foster City, CA. Ask how many days a week you would be expected in the office.
  2. Experience. The advert asks for at least 3 years.
  3. Resume. The advert's own words include CI/CD, Python and C++. Use them wherever they are true for you.

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About hiring at Zoox

Zoox has 100 openings on USA Jobs 24 today across 6 states. Most are in software & IT (38), data & AI (17) and product & design (13). The biggest locations are Foster City, CA (90), Seattle, WA (9) and Boston, MA (6). None of them is fully remote, 16% are open to entry-level candidates and 83% show pay. We collect Zoox's jobs every day straight from its own careers system (Lever), never from job boards or agencies.

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USA Jobs 24 found this job on Zoox's official careers site on November 14, 2026 and checked it again November 14, 5:17 AM ET. Zoox will never ask you to pay to apply or to buy equipment with a check they send you. If anyone does, it is a scam.

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