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Machine Learning Engineer - MLA Perception Offline Driving Intelligence

189k – 257kFoster City, CABoston, MAHybrid
Summary

Develop and fine-tune multimodal large language models for offline analysis to enhance robotaxi environmental understanding and integrate into production for safe autonomous navigation. Requires MS/PhD in CS/ML, experience with LLMs, PyTorch, and large-scale data training.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Develop multimodal large language models that enhance our robotaxis' understanding of complex urban environments
  • Implement model architectures and sophisticated training techniques
  • Build large high quality datasets leveraging all the inputs from our sensor stack and the overall large scale data we have at Zoox.
  • Drive end-to-end ML solutions from research to production, utilizing Zoox's extensive data pipelines and infrastructure to improve autonomous driving capabilities.
  • Collaborate with perception, planning, safety, and systems teams to integrate your models into the vehicle's decision-making pipeline.
  • Validate and optimize your solutions using real-world driving scenarios, directly contributing to the safety and reliability of Zoox's autonomous system

Qualifications

  • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related technical field
  • Demonstrated experience training and deploying large language models (LLMs)
  • Experience building and maintaining ML training pipelines, including data preprocessing, model training, and evaluation
  • Proficiency in Python and ML libraries (PyTorch, NumPy) demonstrated through professional or research projects
  • Experience training models with large scale data

Bonus Qualifications

  • Publications in top-tier conferences (CVPR, ICCV, RSS, ICRA)
  • Experience with autonomous robotics systems
Skills
PyTorchNumPyPythonLarge Language ModelsML Training PipelinesData PreprocessingModel TrainingModel EvaluationMultimodal Models
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