Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Perception Localization

Zoox · Foster City, CA

The Perception team at Zoox is fundamental to our autonomous vehicle technology, creating the understanding of the world for our self-driving robots. We enable safe and efficient navigation in complex environments through sophisticated detection, classification, and tracking systems.

As an engineer on the Localization team, you will be a key contributor to Zoox’s online pose estimation systems. This role focuses on improving the ML systems that utilize cameras for Localization. You will design, train, validate, and integrate computer vision models into the online software system. Your work will enable important milestones to scaling and autonomy capabilities and will be critical to the success of Zoox.

In this role, you will...

  • Research, implement, and train ML models to perform vision based localization

  • Curate datasets for model training and validation

  • Closely collaborate with validation teams to formulate and execute model validation pipelines

  • Integrate models into the greater onboard autonomy system within compute budgets

  • Be a technical leader on the team, maintaining coding and ML development best practices and contributing to architectural decisions

  • Qualifications

  • MS plus 7+ years in Computer Science or related field

  • Experience in computer vision based pose estimation 

  • Experience with training and deploying deep learning models

  • Experience with with Python libraries (pytorch, numpy)

  • Experience with C++

  • Bonus Qualifications

  • Experience with SLAM systems which incorporate ML models

  • Experience in robotics or autonomous systems

  • Experience with CUDA and/or GPU programming

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