Manager, Onboard Behavior Encoder

The role

You will lead and grow a team that builds deep learning models to train the driving behavior of an autonomous vehicle. You will set the team's technical direction and work with partner teams on model improvements.

What you will do

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of individual contributors
• Develop and organize the overall strategy for onboard behavior ML models that generate driving plans
• Identify model improvement opportunities with partner teams
• Set short and long term technical direction for the team
• Provide technical guidance on designing and developing large scale training models
• Work with partner teams on efficient inference
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Manage team resource allocation and staffing of projects

Required qualifications

• Expertise with reinforcement learning and machine learning in at least one of: planning, LLMs, VLAs/VLMs, recommendation systems
• Extensive experience with programming and algorithm design
• Strong mathematics skills
• MS or PhD in computer science or a related field
• 5+ years of experience with production machine learning pipelines
• At least 3 years in a leadership or management role

Nice to have

• Conference or journal publications in machine learning or robotics venues
• Prior experience with autonomous vehicles or robotics, diffusion models, or large scale training

About the company

Zoox develops autonomous vehicles. The Onboard Behavior Model Architecture team builds the ML driver that is safe, comfortable, and completes its mission.