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Zoox · 22 hours ago

Machine Learning Engineer - Perception

positionFoster City, CA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
senioritySenior Level
money$189K/yr - $258K/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. The Perception team is leveraging GenAI to create synthetic data for training and evaluation of autonomous systems, focusing on multi-sensor fusion and deep learning models.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)TransportationRoboticsAutonomous VehiclesMachine Learning
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Design, develop, train and evaluate multi-sensor fusion based deep learning models to understand obstacles and environmental context
Understand and curate real and synthetic datasets to improve our models
Perform latency optimization and deploy models to our robot fleet
Build a deep understanding of Perception gaps and behavioral issues around difficult obstacle types in order to help plan and prioritize our work
Collaborate with Prediction/Planner team to deploy fully autonomous vehicles in environments with difficult and rare obstacles, extreme weather conditions, and complex driving scenario

Qualification

Deep Learning expertiseMulti-sensor fusion algorithmsPythonC++Transformer architecturePublications in top-tier conferencesAutonomous robotics3D Gaussian Splatting

Required

MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related technical field with 5+ years of industry experience
Proficiency in Python and some knowledge in C++
Deep Learning expertise
Experience developing multi-sensor fusion algorithms for object detection, panoptic segmentation or object tracking
Familiar with Transformer architecture

Preferred

Publications in top-tier conferences (CVPR, ICCV, RSS, ICRA)
Experience with autonomous robotics systems
Experience implementing 3D Gaussian Splatting

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/

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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$955M
Key Investors
Grok VenturesBlackbird Ventures,Lux Capital,Thomas Tull,ThresholdLux Capital,Threshold
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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