Senior / Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Perception Mapping at Zoox (Foster City, CA)
Zoox· Foster City, CA· $254k–$350k·
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Job description
The Perception team at Zoox is fundamental to our autonomous vehicle technology, creating the understanding of the world for our self-driving robots. We enable safe and efficient navigation in complex environments through sophisticated detection, classification, and tracking systems.
As a software engineer on the perception mapping team, you will be a key contributor to Zoox’s online mapping initiative. You will design, train, validate, and integrate into the stack ML models that detect semantic map elements in the world. Your work will touch on all aspects of ML development, including data gathering, labeling, training, validation, and onboard integration. Your work will enable important milestones to scaling and autonomy capabilities and will be critical to the success of Zoox.
In this role, you will:
- Curate, validate, and label datasets for model training and validation
- Research, implement, and train ML models to perform semantic map element detection
- Closely collaborate with validation teams to formulate and execute model validation pipelines
- Integrate models into the greater onboard autonomy system within compute budgets
- Be a technical leader on the team, maintaining coding and ML development best practices and contributing to architectural decisions
Qualifications:
- MS or PhD or equivalent experience (5+ years) in Computer Science or related field
- Experience in computer vision or robotics
- Experience with training and deploying deep learning models
- Experience with with Python libraries (pytorch, numpy)
Bonus Qualifications:
- Experience with C++
- Experience with CUDA and/or GPU programming
- Experience with mapping related ML techniques
Why work at Zoox
- Culture: Diverse, supportive community with inclusion‑focused strategy. Crew‑led groups for personal and professional development. Emphasis on trust, humility, and openness zoox.com/careers
- Work environment: Hybrid? The careers page lists many roles as “On‑site” in Foster City, CA, with other office locations available. In‑office perks include a famous food program with daily changing local and sustainable dishes, plus a busy calendar of events and sports teams.
- Benefits: Comprehensive health plans (Cigna), mental health support, wellbeing program, flexible time off, generous family planning and caregiver support, and a commitment to work‑life balance.
- Growth opportunities: Work on cutting‑edge autonomous vehicle technology alongside some of the brightest minds in AI, engineering, computer vision, and more. Offers internships and re‑entry programs (via Path Forward) for career returners.
- Recruitment process: Uses AI tools to assist in reviewing applications but final decisions are human. No fees are charged at any stage – watch for recruitment scams zoox.com/journal/landing-a-job-zoox