Zoox
Software Engineering Manager - Perception Occupancy
Foster City, CA. Posted 9 months ago
The role
You will lead a team of managers and engineers who build occupancy modeling and rare event detection for Zoox's perception stack. You will own the development of multi-modal perception models and set the team's technical roadmap.
What you will do
- Build and lead a team of managers and engineers in core occupancy modeling and rare event detection
- Drive the team's roadmap, productivity and execution
- Own the development and deployment of critical perception models
- Consolidate multi-modal architectures and guide technical design to improve detection range, robustness and accuracy
- Lead adoption of state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning techniques, such as foundation models and efficient geometric representations
- Collaborate with simulation and data teams on synthetic data and edge-case scenarios, including adverse weather and safety-critical environments
- Balance technical leadership with people management and establish data-driven decision-making practices
Required 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
- 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)
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
About the company
Zoox is reinventing personal transportation with a vehicle built for dense, complicated urban environments. Its vehicle has bidirectional driving capabilities and four-wheel steering.