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Machine Learning Engineer - Perception

189k – 258kFoster City, CASeattle, WAHybrid5+ YOE
Summary

Develops and trains generative AI models for sensor-level scenario generation using world models and radiance fields to enhance Zoox's autonomous vehicle perception stack. Requires MS/PhD, 5+ years experience, Python/C++, deep learning, and multi-sensor fusion expertise.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, train and evaluate multi-sensor fusion based deep learning models to understand obstacles and environmental context
  • Understand and curate real and synthetic datasets to improve our models
  • Perform latency optimization and deploy models to our robot fleet
  • Build a deep understanding of Perception gaps and behavioral issues around difficult obstacle types in order to help plan and prioritize our work
  • Collaborate with Prediction/Planner team to deploy fully autonomous vehicles in environments with difficult and rare obstacles, extreme weather conditions, and complex driving scenario

Qualifications

  • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related technical field with 5+ years of industry experience
  • Proficiency in Python and some knowledge in C++
  • Deep Learning expertise
  • Experience developing multi-sensor fusion algorithms for object detection, panoptic segmentation or object tracking
  • Familiar with Transformer architecture

Bonus Qualifications

  • Publications in top-tier conferences (CVPR, ICCV, RSS, ICRA)
  • Experience with autonomous robotics systems
  • Experience implementing 3D Gaussian Splatting
Skills
PythonC++Deep LearningMulti-sensor fusionTransformersObject detectionPanoptic segmentationObject tracking3D Gaussian SplattingAutonomous robotics
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