Zoox
Director, Perception
$410K–$492K
Foster City, CA · Hybrid · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2025
- Experience
- 8+ years of leadership experience leading teams of 40+; 10+ years in computer vision, machine learning, and related technologies.
- Education
- MSc or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or related fields.
About the job
Leads teams developing and deploying Zoox’s perception systems, which interpret multimodal sensor data to model the driving environment for autonomous vehicles.
What you'll do
- Lead managers and engineers, setting the team’s roadmap and driving productivity, execution, and impact.
- Provide technical leadership and oversee planning and delivery of complex perception projects.
- Collaborate across teams, report progress and recommendations to executives, and establish data-driven practices.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of leadership experience leading teams of 40+.
- 10+ years of experience in computer vision, machine learning, and related technologies.
- Recent experience implementing vision and perception algorithms, plus expertise deploying autonomy solutions in real-world systems.
- Experience with E2E perception models, transformers, sparse networks, sensor fusion, and uncertainty modeling across modalities.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with perception for autonomous vehicles or similar robots; experience deploying real-world products or platforms.
- Experience validating risk- or safety-critical systems; GPU or TPU programming knowledge (CUDA, TensorRT, etc.).
Pay
USD 410,000–492,000 per year base salary
Tools
vision, lidar, radar, long-wave IR, E2E models, transformers, sparse networks, CUDA
AI focus
Develops AI-based perception systems, including segmentation, detection, classification, sensor fusion, and tracking across multiple sensor modalities.
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