Senior / Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Perception Mapping
Zoox
Apply to this job 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
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