Software Engineering Manager – Perception Occupancy
Zoox
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Foster City • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $277,000 - $333,000 per year
About the role
- Build and lead a team of managers and engineers responsible for core occupancy modeling and rare event detection, driving the team’s roadmap, productivity, and execution.
- Own the development and deployment of critical perception models, overseeing the consolidation of multi-modal architectures and guiding technical design to enhance detection range, robustness and accuracy.
- Lead the adoption of state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning techniques—such as foundation models and efficient geometrics representations—to improve performance on long-tail classes and support geofence expansion and fleet size expansion.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with simulation and data teams to leverage synthetic data and edge-case scenarios, ensuring the perception system performs reliably in adverse weather and safety-critical environments.
- Drive organizational health by balancing technical leadership with people management, establishing best practices for data-driven decision-making, and enabling the team to scale effectively.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of computer vision systems, AI software stacks, and sensor fusion across multiple modalities.
- 3+ years of technical leadership experience, 10+ years of experience in computer vision, machine learning and related fields.
- Strong leadership skills in recruiting, leading, growing, and managing technical team members in solving challenging problems, and building critical components of a real-time system
- Expertise in implementing autonomy solutions and deploying real-world systems
- Experience with recent AI approaches including VLM, LLM, Transformers and GenAI (3D/4D GS, Diffusion, NeRF).
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 & Tools
computer visionmachine learningsensor fusionautonomy solutionsreal-time systemsfoundation modelsefficient geometric representationsVLMLLMTransformers
Soft Skills
technical leadershippeople managementrecruitingteam buildingproblem solvingdata-driven decision-making