Zoox

Zoox is Amazon's autonomous vehicle subsidiary, building a purpose-built robotaxi from the ground up rather than adapting an existing car. Unlike most AV companies, Zoox designed a bidirectional electric vehicle with no steering wheel, purpose-built for fully driverless urban transport. The company is based in Foster City, California and has been developing its technology for over a decade.

Engineering at Zoox covers the full AV stack: perception, prediction, planning, simulation, hardware-software integration, and the fleet operations infrastructure to support a commercial service. The team uses C++, Python, and ROS extensively, with significant ML work in PyTorch. Engineers work closely with hardware teams, which is unusual in software roles and appeals to engineers who want to see their work drive real vehicles on real roads.