Senior / Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Perception Mapping

Foster City, CA hybrid Until 8/21/2026 5+ years exp H-1B sponsor history First posted December 5, 2025 Last posted December 5, 2025
Job description
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 a software engineer on the perception mapping team, you will be a key contributor to Zoox’s online mapping initiative. You will design, train, validate, and integrate into the stack ML models that detect semantic map elements in the world. Your work will touch on all aspects of ML development, including data gathering, labeling, training, validation, and onboard integration. 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:

  • Curate, validate, and label datasets for model training and validation
  • Research, implement, and train ML models to perform semantic map element detection
  • 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 or PhD or equivalent experience (5+ years) in Computer Science or related field
  • Experience in computer vision or robotics
  • Experience with training and deploying deep learning models
  • Experience with with Python libraries (pytorch, numpy)

Bonus Qualifications:

  • Experience with C++
  • Experience with CUDA and/or GPU programming
  • Experience with mapping related ML techniques

Compensation (from employer):
242000–290000 USD per year

About this role

Summary

Develop, train, and deploy ML models for autonomous vehicle perception and mapping

Job title

Senior / Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Perception Mapping

Experience level

5+ years

Minimum experience

5+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Foster City, CA; remote not specified

Salary

$242k–$290k

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

pythonpytorchnumpy

Preferred skills

c++cudamapping

Specializations

computer visionmachine learningdeep learningmapping
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Foster City, CA, USA

Hybrid City