Software Engineering Manager Perception Occupancy
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Job Location:
Foster, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Were reinventing personal transportationmaking the future safer cleaner and more enjoyable. Weve created our vehicle specifically for dense complicated urban environments. Zoox is the only driving vehicle on the market with bidirectional driving capabilities and four-wheel steering allowing us to maneuver through compact spaces and change directions without the need to reverse. The future is for riders!
Our growing Perception team is searching for an Engineering Manager for the Perception Occupancy and Rare Events team. Our perception stack is responsible for building Zooxs world-class 3D environment model from multi-modal sensor data. We create novel AI architectures that combine the latest academic results with many in-house innovations in creative ways. Our algorithms are relentlessly optimized and tuned to run efficiently and effectively on a wide variety of real-life data as well as in simulation.
You will be responsible for leading high-impact Perception teams with their technical roadmap and milestone goals. You will be closely collaborating with other AI teams including Simulation Sensor and Hardware and Systems Design and Mission Assurance teams to deliver an exceptional objects occupancy perception system encompassing modalities such as vision lidar radar and long-wave IR. You will lead a diverse experienced team with a rapidly growing scope and responsibility while also working on some of the most complex problems in artificial intelligence perception and sensor fusion.
In this role you will:
- Lead Technical Strategy: Build and lead a team of managers and engineers responsible for core occupancy modeling and rare event detection driving the teams roadmap productivity and execution.
- Drive Model Evolution: 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.
- Innovate with Advanced ML: Lead the adoption of state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning techniquessuch as foundation models and efficient geometrics representationsto improve performance on long-tail classes and support geofence expansion and fleet size expansion.
- Collaborate on Simulation & Data: 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.
- Ensure Organizational Excellence: 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.
Qualifications:
- 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).
Bonus Qualifications:
- 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
$277000 - $333000 a year
There are three major components to compensation for this position: salary Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights. A sign-on bonus may be offered as part of the compensation package. The listed range applies only to the base salary. Compensation will vary based on geographic location and level. Leveling as well as positioning within a level is determined by a range of factors including but not limited to a candidates relevant years of experience domain knowledge and interview performance. The salary range listed in this posting is representative of the range of levels Zoox is considering for this position.
Zoox also offers a comprehensive package of benefits including 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 and life insurance.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
We’re reinventing personal transportation—making the future safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable for everyone. This is on-demand autonomous ride-hailing.
