Director, Perception Detection
Zoox
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Foster City • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $391,000 - $470,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Build and lead a group of managers and engineers, and be responsible for the team’s roadmap, productivity, execution and impact within the company.
- Set the vision for, grow, and lead a team of talented software engineers in the overall planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects, while providing the team with technical leadership.
- Collaborate with engineers and leaders across a variety of teams to brainstorm and accelerate the development of perception capabilities.
- Provide clear summaries, progress, and recommendations to our executive leadership team.
- Establishing best practices and statistical rigor around data-driven decision-making.
- Stay on top of industry and academic trends in AI and perception, making sure Zoox remains at the cutting edge of both algorithms and their implementation at scale.
Requirements
- 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 suitable for recruiting, leading, growing, and managing technical team members in solving a challenging problem, and building a critical component of a real-time system.
- Recent experience in implementing vision & 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.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Long-term care insurance
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
- Unpaid time off
- Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
- Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
computer visionAI software stacksmachine learningvision & perception algorithmsautonomy solutionsE2E modelstransformerssparse networkssensor fusionuncertainty modeling
Soft skills
leadershipteam managementcommunicationpresentationcollaborationdecision-makingproblem-solvingstrategic planningtechnical leadershiporganizational skills
Certifications
MScPhD