Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Perception Mapping

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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 Python libraries (pytorch, numpy)

Qualifications

• Experience with C++
• Experience with CUDA and/or GPU programming
• Experience with mapping related ML techniques

Skills

• Strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Benefits

• A comprehensive package of benefits, including paid time off, Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights, Amazon RSUs, health insurance, long-term care insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, and life insurance

Pay

$242,000 - $290,000 a year Base Salary Range

Schedule

Full-time