Director, Perception

The role

Lead high-impact perception teams building Zoox's 3D environment model from multi-modal sensor data. Set technical roadmaps and milestones, and work with AI, software, simulation and systems design teams on the dynamic objects perception system.

What you will do

• Build and lead a group of managers and engineers, and own the team's roadmap, productivity, execution and impact.
• Set the vision for and grow a team of software engineers, providing technical leadership on complex projects.
• Collaborate with engineers and leaders across teams to accelerate perception capabilities.
• Provide clear summaries, progress and recommendations to the executive leadership team.
• Establish best practices and statistical rigor around data-driven decision-making.
• Stay current on industry and academic trends in AI and perception, keeping Zoox at the cutting edge.

Required qualifications

• Strong understanding of computer vision systems and AI software stacks.
• 8+ years of extensive leadership experience, leading teams of 40+.
• 10+ years of experience in computer vision, machine learning and related technologies.
• Strong leadership skills for recruiting, leading, growing and managing technical team members.
• Recent experience implementing vision and perception algorithms.
• Expertise in implementing autonomy solutions and deploying real-world systems.
• Experience with recent AI approaches including E2E models for perception, transformers and sparse networks.
• Experience with sensor fusion and uncertainty modeling across multiple modalities.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• MSc or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science or related fields.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with perception of autonomous vehicles or similar robots.
• Hands-on experience deploying real products or platforms into the real world.
• Involvement in validation or evaluation of risk and/or safety-critical systems.
• Knowledge of GPU and/or TPU programming (CUDA, TensorRT, etc.).

About the company

Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem to bring it to market, aiming to provide mobility-as-a-service in urban environments.