Software Engineer

Client: Autonomous Vehicle/Tech

Title:Software Engineer

Job Location: Foster City, CA

Duration: ~6 Months

The Pay rate is commensurate with experience and is an estimated range provided by WorkGenius.

Software Engineer, Python Full-Stack - AI Triage & RCA
Foster City, CA (hybrid)
Travel within the Bay Area is required

Our Client builds and operates a fleet of purpose-built robotaxis. ZBIT is our AI-powered platform that automates triage, system analysis, and root cause analysis (RCA) across our Client's issue-tracking workflow - scaling how fast the company diagnoses and resolves problems. We are now extending ZBIT into Manufacturing, integrating AI-guided triage and RCA directly into the production line so that test failures are diagnosed, worked around, and root-caused in minutes instead of hours.

In this contract role you will add engineering muscle to the existing ZBIT team, adapting and extending our existing AI triage/RCA features for the Manufacturing use case. You will build LLM-powered RCA agents and full-stack features, integrate manufacturing data sources, and wire ZBIT into the manufacturing test workflow - shipping features fast on a live platform. This is a hands-on feature-building role (~85% coding), full-stack but backend-weighted; it is not an ML-research, architecture, or infrastructure/SRE role.

Day to day you will:

• Build and extend LLM-powered RCA and triage agents - adapt existing ZBIT agents and tools to diagnose manufacturing-line failures, generate hypotheses with supporting evidence, and suggest confidence-scored workarounds.
• Ship full-stack features end-to-end - Python (FastAPI) services and the supporting web/UI, integrated with the manufacturing test platform.
• Integrate manufacturing data sources - historical issue data, diagnostics, FMEAs, wirelists, BOM, firmware-config sources, and Slack - into the agents' context.
• Iterate on agent quality - design prompts and tools, evaluate outputs, and improve real-world accuracy with the team's ML and RCA engineers.
• Move fast in an existing codebase - become productive quickly and deliver against the Manufacturing roadmap with tested, maintainable code.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong Python - independently owns services, REST/FastAPI APIs, async jobs, and data pipelines, with production-quality, testable code.
• Full-stack capability - can extend a modern JS front-end (Vue, React, or similar) to deliver features end-to-end.
• LLM / agent development experience - has built LLM-powered features or agents (prompt and tool design, structured outputs, output evaluation and iteration).
• Proven fast ramp on existing codebases - productive quickly in unfamiliar code.
• API and data-integration fluency - building/consuming REST APIs and wiring in heterogeneous external data sources.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience with Bazel or another large-monorepo build system.
• Manufacturing, hardware, or test-data domain exposure (diagnostics, FMEAs, BOM, wirelists).
• Retrieval/data skills relevant to RCA (vector search/embeddings, log/ticket analysis, Databricks or similar); observability, CI/CD, cloud (GCP/AWS) familiarity.

This is an onsite opportunity. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.