Zoox H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Autonomous vehicles · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 Foster City, CA HQ🌐 zoox.com
Does Zoox sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. Zoox has filed 1,828 H-1B LCAs and 412 PERM green-card cases with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 Zoox filed 652 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $176,000, about 44% above the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period, and 229 green-card cases were decided.
H-1B pay & filings by year
Median base salary (line) and H-1B filing volume (bars), by fiscal year
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| Fiscal year | H-1B LCA filings | Median base salary |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 (partial) | 358 | $182k |
| FY2025 | 294 | $171k |
| FY2024 | 297 | $164k |
| FY2023 | 214 | $154k |
| FY2022 | 216 | $144k |
| FY2021 | 142 | $126k |
| FY2020 | 91 | $123k |
| FY2019 | 133 | $150k |
| FY2018 | 56 | $140k |
| FY2017 | 27 | $130k |
A fiscal year marked partial is still in progress, so its total is lower than a complete year and the two are not comparable.
H-1B wage floor & filing outcomes
What this employer pays against the DOL legal minimum, how senior the roles are, and how the filings were decided
Roles they file for
Where they hire
Green-card (PERM) pay & filings by year
Median green-card offer (line) and PERM filing volume (bars), by fiscal year †
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| Fiscal year | PERM filings | Median base salary |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 (partial) | 78 | $181k |
| FY2025 | 151 | $175k |
| FY2024 | 40 | $163k |
| FY2023 | 46 | $160k |
| FY2022 | 40 | $160k |
| FY2021 | 32 | $139k |
| FY2020 | 8 | $140k |
| FY2019 | 6 | $135k |
| FY2018 | 11 | $118k |
Green-card route and outcomes
Worker backgrounds · FY2017–2024
Where their green-card (PERM) workers studied & came from
Patents
- Granted
- 1,185
- US patents
- Published, not yet granted
- 681
- applications
- Most recent grant
- April 7, 2026
- Top area
- Conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type249
Pay against the local market
Zoox’s 10 most-filed occupations and metros. Its median base salary is 107% of the local BLS median for the same work.
| Occupation | Metro | Filings | Zoox pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | San Francisco, CA | 586 | $172,499 | $166,347 | 104% |
| Mechanical Engineers | San Francisco, CA | 315 | $146,172 | $133,364 | 110% |
| Industrial Engineers | San Francisco, CA | 183 | $144,062 | $128,496 | 112% |
| Electrical Engineers | San Francisco, CA | 145 | $152,055 | $141,289 | 108% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | San Francisco, CA | 57 | $160,800 | $147,113 | 109% |
| Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers | San Francisco, CA | 43 | $148,059 | $138,617 | 107% |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | San Francisco, CA | 43 | $212,697 | $218,634 | 97% |
| Engineers, All Other | San Francisco, CA | 42 | $170,359 | $148,640 | 115% |
| Architectural and Engineering Managers | San Francisco, CA | 32 | $197,992 | $208,095 | 95% |
| Data Scientists | San Francisco, CA | 28 | $184,620 | $165,993 | 111% |
About Zoox
Zoox is an autonomous vehicles company based in Foster City, CA. It was founded in 2014.
- Name (DOL filings)
- Zoox
- Parent company
- Amazon
- Sponsoring since
- FY2017 or earlier
- Headquarters
- Foster City, United States
- Industry
- Autonomous vehicles
- Employees (US, est)
- 2,686 (2024)
- Funding raised
- $200M (2019)
- Median base
- $157,967
- Founded
- 2014
Zoox pays a median H-1B base of $157,967 across FY2017–2026, about 13% above the typical Autonomous vehicles sponsor.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cadence | 2,560 | 642 | $152k | 256 | 56% |
| KLA | 2,425 | 637 | $150k | 279 | 49% |
| 2,410 | 655 | $173k | 183 | 50% | |
| Zoox | 1,828 | 652 | $176k | 199 | 76% |
| HP | 1,711 | 383 | $128k | 187 | 64% |
| NXP Semiconductors | 1,694 | 319 | $147k | 146 | 38% |
| Analog Devices | 1,685 | 507 | $139k | 182 | 44% |
