Zoox
Software Engineering Manager - Perception Occupancy
$291K–$350K
Foster City, CA · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Feb 3, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of technical leadership experience; 10+ years in computer vision, machine learning, and related fields.
About the job
Leads the Perception Occupancy and Rare Events team, setting technical direction and delivering perception models for autonomous vehicles using multimodal sensor data.
What you'll do
- Lead the team’s technical strategy, roadmap, execution, and organizational growth.
- Guide development and deployment of occupancy and rare-event models, improving detection range, robustness, and accuracy.
- Collaborate with simulation and data teams to use synthetic data and edge cases to improve performance in adverse and safety-critical conditions.
What they ask for
- Strong understanding of computer vision systems, AI software stacks, and multimodal sensor fusion.
- Strong leadership skills in recruiting, leading, growing, and managing technical team members.
- Expertise implementing autonomy solutions and deploying real-world systems.
- Experience with recent AI approaches, including VLM, LLM, Transformers, and GenAI (3D/4D GS, Diffusion, NeRF).
Nice to have
- Familiarity with perception for autonomous vehicles or similar robots.
- Experience deploying real-world products or platforms, or validating risk- and safety-critical systems.
Pay
USD 291,000–350,000 per-year-salary; base salary
Tools
VLM, LLM, Transformers, GenAI, 3D/4D GS, Diffusion, NeRF, lidar
AI focus
Leads development and deployment of multimodal occupancy perception and rare-event detection models, using advanced computer vision and machine learning, including foundation models and efficient geometric representations.
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