Zoox
Senior Manager, Perception
$340K–$408K
Foster City, CA · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Feb 12, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of leadership experience leading teams of 20+; 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 perception teams developing and deploying real-time AI systems that interpret multimodal sensor data for Zoox’s autonomous vehicle.
What you'll do
- Lead managers and engineers, setting the team’s roadmap and overseeing productivity, execution, and impact.
- Provide technical leadership and collaborate across teams to develop perception capabilities.
- Report progress and recommendations to executives, and establish data-driven decision-making practices.
What they ask for
- Strong understanding of computer vision systems and AI software stacks.
- 5+ years of leadership experience leading teams of 20+.
- 10+ years of experience in computer vision, machine learning, and related technologies, including recent implementation of vision and perception algorithms.
- Experience implementing autonomy solutions and deploying real-world systems; experience with recent AI approaches, sensor fusion, and uncertainty modeling.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with perception for autonomous vehicles or similar robots; experience deploying real products or platforms.
- Experience validating risk- or safety-critical systems; knowledge of GPU or TPU programming (CUDA, TensorRT, etc.).
Pay
USD 340,000–408,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
vision, lidar, radar, long-wave IR, E2E models, transformers, sparse networks, CUDA
AI focus
Develops and leads AI perception systems, including dynamic-object detection, segmentation, classification, sensor fusion, and tracking.
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