Zoox
Manager, Onboard Behavior Encoder
$254K–$366K
Foster City, CA · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 1, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in production Machine Learning pipelines, including at least 3 years in a leadership or management role.
- Education
- MS or PhD degree in computer science or related field.
About the job
Leads a team developing and improving large-scale machine learning models that generate driving plans for autonomous vehicles.
What you'll do
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of individual contributors; allocate resources and monitor KPIs.
- Set short- and long-term technical strategy for onboard behavior models and coordinate with partner teams.
- Guide model training at scale and work with partner teams to ensure efficient inference.
What they ask for
- Expertise in reinforcement learning and machine learning in at least one of: planning, LLMs, VLAs/VLMs, or recommendation systems.
- Extensive programming and algorithm-design experience, with strong mathematics skills.
- MS or PhD in computer science or a related field.
- 5+ years of production machine-learning pipeline experience, including at least 3 years in a leadership or management role.
Nice to have
- Machine learning or robotics conference or journal publications.
- Experience with autonomous vehicles or robotics, diffusion models, or large-scale training.
Pay
USD 254,000–366,000 (per-year-salary); base salary
Tools
Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning
AI focus
Develops and trains large-scale machine-learning models that learn and predict driving behavior to generate autonomous-vehicle plans.
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