Zoox · 3 hours ago
Software Engineering Manager - Perception Occupancy
Foster City, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$277K/yr - $333K/yr
10+ years expZoox is reinventing personal transportation with a focus on safety and efficiency in urban environments. They are seeking an Engineering Manager for the Perception Occupancy and Rare Events team to lead the development of advanced perception models and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure exceptional performance in complex scenarios.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous VehiclesMachine LearningRoboticsTransportation
Responsibilities
Build and lead a team of managers and engineers responsible for core occupancy modeling and rare event detection, driving the team’s roadmap, productivity, and execution
Own the development and deployment of critical perception models, overseeing the consolidation of multi-modal architectures and guiding technical design to enhance detection range, robustness and accuracy
Lead the adoption of state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning techniques—such as foundation models and efficient geometrics representations—to improve performance on long-tail classes and support geofence expansion and fleet size expansion
Collaborate cross-functionally with simulation and data teams to leverage synthetic data and edge-case scenarios, ensuring the perception system performs reliably in adverse weather and safety-critical environments
Drive organizational health by balancing technical leadership with people management, establishing best practices for data-driven decision-making, and enabling the team to scale effectively
Qualification
Required
Strong understanding of computer vision systems, AI software stacks, and sensor fusion across multiple modalities
3+ years of technical leadership experience, 10+ years of experience in computer vision, machine learning and related fields
Strong leadership skills in recruiting, leading, growing, and managing technical team members in solving challenging problems, and building critical components of a real-time system
Expertise in implementing autonomy solutions and deploying real-world systems
Experience with recent AI approaches including VLM, LLM, Transformers and GenAI (3D/4D GS, Diffusion, NeRF)
Preferred
Familiarity with perception of autonomous vehicles or similar robots
Hands-on experience having deployed real products or platforms into the real world, and intimately understanding the challenges of working with complex systems
Involvement in validation or evaluation of risk and/or safety-critical systems
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
Zoox is an AI robotics company that provides mobility-as-a-service and self-driving car services. It is a sub-organization of Amazon.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$955MKey Investors
Grok Ventures
2020-06-26Acquired
2019-10-21Convertible Note· $200M
2018-07-08Series B· $465M
Leadership Team
Nelson Pedreiro
Sr. Vice President, Hardware
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Zheng Gao
Director of Hardware Engineering
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