Zoox
Senior Manager, Perception Data
$339K–$375K
Foster City, CA · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
About the job
Leads Zoox’s perception data organization and builds the data flywheel that finds, curates, labels, and measures fleet data to improve model training and evaluation.
What you'll do
- Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of data science, data engineering, and data labeling professionals.
- Build and operate data discovery, log selection, auto-annotation, curation, and enrichment pipelines at scale.
- Connect curated data to model training, evaluation, and performance measurement, partnering with ML, metrics, evaluation, and infrastructure teams.
What they ask for
- Track record building and leading high-performing technical teams, including managing managers or senior individual contributors.
- Deep technical expertise in computer vision, video, multimodal AI, or related perception problems.
- Experience leading large-scale data capabilities that directly influence model training, evaluation, and performance.
- Experience with data discovery, selection, curation, and enrichment at scale, plus strong technical and commercial judgment.
Nice to have
- Autonomous driving, robotics, or embodied AI.
- Large-scale video, multimodal, or foundation model training; semantic search, embeddings, active learning, auto labeling, or intelligent data selection and enrichment.
Pay
USD 339,000–375,000 per-year-salary (base salary)
Tools
computer vision, video, multimodal AI, embeddings, semantic search, learned representations, active learning
AI focus
Uses intelligent data mining, model-driven selection, and automated annotation to surface valuable perception data and improve model training and evaluation.
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