Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Perception Offline Driving Intelligence jobs in United States
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Zoox · 1 day ago

Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Perception Offline Driving Intelligence

positionFoster City, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
money$242K/yr - $333K/yr

Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. The role involves leading the development of multimodal large language models to enhance robotaxi capabilities, ensuring safe and efficient navigation in complex urban environments.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous VehiclesMachine LearningRoboticsTransportation
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Responsibilities

Lead the development of multimodal large language models that enhance our robotaxis' understanding of complex urban environments
Design effective model architectures and sophisticated training techniques, leveraging all the inputs from our sensor stack and the overall large scale data we have at Zoox
Drive end-to-end ML solutions from research to production, utilizing Zoox's extensive data pipelines and infrastructure to improve autonomous driving capabilities
Collaborate with perception, planning, safety, and systems teams to integrate your models into the vehicle's decision-making pipeline
Validate and optimize your solutions using real-world driving scenarios, directly contributing to the safety and reliability of Zoox's autonomous system

Qualification

Large language modelsML training pipelinesPythonML librariesLarge scale datasetsAutonomous robotics systemsPublications in conferencesCollaboration

Required

MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related technical field
Demonstrated experience training and deploying large language models (LLMs)
Experience building and maintaining ML training pipelines, including data preprocessing, model training, and evaluation
Proficiency in Python and ML libraries (PyTorch, NumPy) demonstrated through professional or research projects
Experience training with large scale datasets (e.g. tens of millions of videos)

Preferred

Publications in top-tier conferences (CVPR, ICCV, RSS, ICRA)
Experience with autonomous robotics systems

Company

Zoox

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Zoox is an AI robotics company that provides mobility-as-a-service and self-driving car services. It is a sub-organization of Amazon.
dateFounded in 2014
location
Foster City, California, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
web-link
https://www.zoox.com/

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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$955M
Key Investors
Grok Ventures
2020-06-26Acquired
2019-10-21Convertible Note· $200M
2018-07-08Series B· $465M

Leadership Team

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Nelson Pedreiro
Sr. Vice President, Hardware
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Zheng Gao
Director of Hardware Engineering
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