Senior / Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Perception Attributes
Develops and maintains behavioral models for road users (vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists) in autonomous driving perception stack. Requires MS/PhD, 7+ years experience, deep learning expertise, Python fluency, and production ML pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of sophisticated behavioral models for vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists as a key member of the Attributes team within Zoox's Perception department.
- Create and maintain perception attribute models that generate essential signals, enabling our autonomous vehicles to understand and predict the behavior of various road users.
- Collaborate closely with Prediction and Planning teams to optimize your models' outputs, directly influencing how our autonomous vehicles make real-time driving decisions.
- Work with data labeling and ontology teams on data labeling and ontology definitions of the road users in different attributes and generate auto-labeling or data mining strategies for different attributes.
Qualifications
- MS/PhD in computer science or related fields with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience
- Experience with training and deploying Deep Learning models
- Experience with knowledge distillations from large foundation models
- Experience with production Machine Learning pipelines: dataset creation, training frameworks, metrics pipelines
- Fluency programming in Python and extensive experience with algorithm design
- Strong mathematics skills
Bonus Qualifications
- Familiarity of VLMs/VLAs/ViTs
- Experience with large model distillation in a production environment
- Familiarity with C++
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