Machine Learning Engineer - Perception Mapping

Machine Learning Engineer - Perception Mapping

Build and deploy semantic map element detection models for Zoox's online perception mapping.

Location: Foster City, California, United States

Compensation: $189, USD per year

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.

As a software engineer on the perception mapping team, you will be a key contributor to Zoox's online mapping initiative. You will design, train, validate, and integrate ML models that detect semantic map elements in the world. Your work will touch on all aspects of ML development, including data gathering, labeling, training, validation, and onboard integration. Your work will enable important milestones for scaling and autonomy capabilities and will be critical to the success of Zoox.

In this role, you will:

• Curate, validate, and label datasets for model training and validation
• Research, implement, and train ML models to perform semantic map element detection
• Collaborate closely with validation teams to formulate and execute model validation pipelines
• Integrate models into the greater onboard autonomy system within compute budgets
• Serve as a technical leader on the team, maintaining coding and ML development best practices and contributing to architectural decisions

• 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, Num Py)

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

Zoox offers a comprehensive package of benefits, including paid time off such as sick leave, vacation, and 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.