Contract Student Worker – Firmware Engineer (FW Core System Services)
Foster City, CA · HybridContract$30/hrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Job overview
Zoox seeks a student worker to extend diagnostic infrastructure for its Core Firmware System Services team and contribute to robot firmware development. The work includes developing diagnostic clients and servers, embedded software, and participating in the full software development cycle. The program offers hands-on project experience and mentorship. Candidates must be enrolled in a relevant bachelor's or master's program, commit to at least 20 hours per week, and commute on-site to a Zoox office.
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Full job description
About Zoox
Zoox is transforming mobility with fully autonomous, electric vehicles designed from the ground up for a driverless future. Our mission is to make transportation safer, more sustainable, and accessible to everyone. At Zoox, innovation, collaboration, and a bold vision for the future drive everything we do.
About Our Part Time Student Worker Program
Zoox’s program offers hands-on experience with cutting-edge technology, mentorship from some of the industry’s brightest minds, and the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to real projects. We seek part time student workers who demonstrate strong academic performance, engagement beyond the classroom, intellectual curiosity, and a genuine interest in Zoox’s mission.
Project Overview
Zoox is seeking a motivated Firmware Engineer student worker to join our team, focusing on diagnostic infrastructure for the Core Firmware System Services team. This is an opportunity to own highly-visible, foundational projects where you will extend our existing diagnostic infrastructure. You will work on the full development cycle of robot firmware development.
In this role, you will:
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Work on the development of UDS, DoIP, and XCP clients and servers for current and next generation platforms
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Develop and test embedded software for reporting diagnostic and configuration
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Contribute to all phases of the software development cycle including prototyping, requirements capture, design, implementation, and validation
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Collaborate with system, software, hardware, and test engineers to define, implement, and validate diagnostic requirements
Qualifications:
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Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's program in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or equivalent experience
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Proficiency in modern C++ for software development
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Experience with Python programming
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Experience with application development targeting a unix-like environment
Bonus Qualifications:
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Familiarity with C++ unit testing principles and framework such as gtest
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Experience with real-time operating systems
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Network introspection and debugging at and above the transport layer
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Industrial or automotive fieldbuses and diagnostics standards (e.g., CAN, J1939, EtherCAT, UDS, SOVD)
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One or more inter-process communication mechanisms
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Event- or message-driven software systems
Program Requirements:
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Currently pursuing a B.S. or M.S., in a relevant engineering field
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Available for a 6 month project
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Able to commit to at least 20 hours per week
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Ability to commute on-site to one of our offices
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Student Worker may not use proprietary Zoox information in university theses, publications, or share it outside
$30 per hour.
This is a contract position and employment for this position will be through a vendor contracted with Zoox. The hourly pay range is posted and you will be eligible for a benefits package as offered by the vendor.
How this job compares
Set against the 768 open Firmware Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$30/hr
- US median$52–71/hr31 hourly ranges
This rate, $30/hr, is 52% below the US median midpoint ($63/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Firmware Engineer hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 304 open Firmware Engineer jobs in California and 768 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Firmware Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 8 years (602 postings).
- Education
- 287 of the 768 open Firmware Engineer jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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