Part-time Student Worker – Software Development Engineer in Test at Zoox
Foster City, MI
$30/hrfrom the description
Jul 1, 2026
Foster City, MI
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A part-time student worker role focused on building and operating a continuous integration environment for manufacturing test hardware. Day-to-day work involves assembling and wiring test rigs, deploying firmware, configuring and running automated test suites against physical hardware, triaging failures, and maintaining scripts and documentation. The role suits engineering or computer science students with hands-on lab experience and Linux/Python skills who can commit at least 20 hours per week on-site.
Junior level · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 510 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 380–670
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,192 (middle half $126,400–$188,281). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
This is a part-time student worker role (minimum 20 hrs/week), not an internship or full-time position. The posting explicitly states it is a contract position through a third-party vendor.
The role is on-site only; Zoox operates offices in the San Francisco Bay Area (Foster City/San Jose area) as well as Las Vegas. The CBSA is mapped to San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara as Zoox's primary engineering hub, though the exact office location is unspecified.
Candidates must currently be pursuing a B.S. or M.S. degree — this is a program eligibility gate, not a completed degree requirement, so the degree requirement is set to None.
Hardware/lab skills (schematics, wiring, instruments) are listed as a required qualification but name no specific tool or platform, so they are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
CI tools, Docker, and Pytest appear under 'Bonus Qualifications' and are treated as preferred. Embedded/HIL/test-automation/CAN coursework is similarly listed as a bonus.
The alt SOC (15-1252 Software Developers) reflects the scripting and CI automation duties; the primary SOC (15-1253) was chosen because the core work is test execution, triage, and validation against hardware.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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