Senior Machine Learning Technical Lead
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Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation Scenario Generation
Zoox
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Foster City • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $151,000 - $257,000 per year
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
Tech Stack
NumpyPythonPyTorch
About the role
- Integrate and validate LLMs/VLMs and implement other models for complex scenario generation workflows, leveraging techniques like advanced prompting, agentic tool use, and more.
- Contribute to tooling for AI-based scenario understanding and validation.
- Collect data and design metrics to drive business intelligence, product iteration, and model fine-tuning.
- Collaborate directly with internal customers and partner teams to provide generative AI solutions for their test creation workflows.
- Directly contribute to the safety and reliability of Zoox's autonomous software.
- Integrate, implement, and optimize next-generation AV scenario generation workflow; extend AI assistant toward full scenario creation automation from natural language test specification.
Requirements
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field
- 2+ years of industry experience in Machine Learning
- Solid understanding of LLM or NLP concepts
- Proficiency in Python and ML libraries (PyTorch, NumPy) demonstrated through professional or research projects
- Practical experience in dataset creation for fine-tuning, system integration of ML models into production, or optimization techniques for low-latency inference systems (bonus)
- Familiarity with autonomous vehicles, robotics, and/or complex simulation environments (bonus)
- Hands-on experience in areas like program synthesis, diffusion models, and/or formal methods/V&V (bonus)
- Relevant publications in conferences (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, RSS, and/or ICRA) (bonus)
Benefits
- paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
- unpaid time off
- Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
- Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Health insurance
- Long-term care insurance
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Sign-on bonus may be offered
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Machine LearningNatural Language ProcessingPythonPyTorchNumPydataset creationsystem integrationoptimization techniquesprogram synthesisdiffusion models
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingdata analysisbusiness intelligence
Certifications
MS in Computer SciencePhD in Computer Science
