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Zoox · 14 hours ago

Machine Learning Engineer - Perception Attributes

positionFoster City, CA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
senioritySenior Level
money$189K/yr - $257K/yr
date5+ years exp

Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. As a Machine Learning Engineer on the Attributes team, you will develop and enhance behavioral models crucial for the safety and effectiveness of autonomous driving, directly impacting how vehicles interact with road users.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous VehiclesMachine LearningRoboticsTransportation
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Work with Data Labeling and Ontology teams on data labeling and ontology definitions of the road users in different attributes and generate auto-labeling or data mining strategies for different attributes
Lead the development of sophisticated behavioral models for vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists as a key member of the Attributes team within Zoox's Perception department
Create and maintain Perception attribute models that generate essential signals, enabling our autonomous vehicles to understand and predict the behavior of various road users
Collaborate closely with Prediction and Planning teams to optimize your models' outputs. This will directly influence how our autonomous vehicles make real-time driving decisions and bridge the critical gap between raw perception data and autonomous decision-making

Qualification

Deep LearningMachine Learning pipelinesPython programmingAlgorithm designMathematics skills

Required

MS/PhD in Computer Science or related fields with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
Experience with training and deploying Deep Learning models
Experience with production Machine Learning pipelines: dataset creation, training frameworks, metrics pipelines
Fluency programming in Python and extensive experience with algorithm design
Strong mathematics skills

Benefits

Paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
Unpaid time off
Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
Amazon RSUs
Health insurance
Long-term care insurance
Long-term and short-term disability insurance
Life insurance

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/

H1B Sponsorship

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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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