Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Ai)

TL;DR

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer (AI): Developing machine learning algorithms for onboard and offboard autonomy and validation, focusing on scene understanding and evolving scenes. Focus on multi-modal foundation models, generative AI for simulation, and collaboration with Prediction, Planning, and Simulation teams to solve complex urban autonomous driving problems.

Location: Foster City, CA

Salary: $277,000 - $389,000 a year

Company

Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market.

What you will do

• Develop new algorithms to understand the scene around the robot, and how that scene would evolve through time
• Build multi-modal foundation models for on-vehicle and offline applications
• Develop new algorithms to apply generative AI to simulation to improve the realism of our offline validation systems
• Leverage our large-scale machine learning infrastructure to discover new solutions and push the boundaries of the field
• Provide technical mentorship to the broader group of ML developers
• Collaborate with engineers on Prediction, Planning, and Simulation to solve the overall Autonomous Driving problem in complex urban environments

Requirements

• BS, MS, or PhD degree in computer science or related field
• Experience with training and deploying Deep Learning models on sensor data
• Experience with production Machine Learning pipelines: dataset creation, training frameworks, metrics pipelines
• Experience with modern computer vision techniques
• Strong mathematical skills and understanding of probabilistic techniques
• Fluency in C++ or Fluency in Python with a basic understanding of C++

Nice to have

• Publications in your field (CVPR, ICCV, RSS, ICRA preferred)
• Experience with autonomous robots
• Experience with realtime sensor fusion (e.g. LiDAR, camera, radar)
• Experience with novel pipelines and architectures for convolutional neural nets 
• Experience with 3D data and representations (pointclouds, meshes, etc.)

Culture & Benefits

• 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.