
Machine Learning Engineer – Scene Understanding
Zoox
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Boston • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $179,000 - $245,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Develop machine learning algorithms for Bird’s Eye View scene analysis and real-time hazard detection.
- Design and implement scene understanding solutions specifically for Zoox's unique bidirectional vehicle.
- Lead the end-to-end data strategy—including mining, auto-labeling, and dataset construction—to keep our ML models improving.
- Implement on-vehicle software for model inference and result post-processing that runs reliably in real-time.
- Use our large-scale data pipelines and infra to research, prototype, and deploy changes that directly improve how the vehicle handles complex road scenarios.
- Team up with Perception, Prediction, and Planning teams to integrate your signals into the final driving solution.
Requirements
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field with 2+ years of industry experience training and deploying ML models.
- Experience with BEV (Bird’s Eye View) models, segmentation, or 3D representations.
- Hands-on experience with the full lifecycle: dataset construction, training frameworks, and building metrics pipelines to evaluate performance.
- A strong mathematical foundation in linear algebra, calculus, and probability.
- Fluency in C++ and Python. Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX.
Benefits
- paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
- unpaid time off
- Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
- Amazon RSUs
- health insurance
- long-term care insurance
- long-term and short-term disability insurance
- life insurance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
machine learning algorithmsscene analysishazard detectiondataset constructionmodel inferencereal-time processingdata pipelinesC++PythonPyTorch
Soft skills
leadershipteam collaboration