Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Scene Intelligence
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Scene Intelligence
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Senior / Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Scene Intelligence
Team: Autonomy Software
Location: Foster City, CA, Boston, MA
Commitment: Full-time
Workplace Type: hybrid
Salary:
The Perception team at Zoox creates the eyes and ears of our self-driving robots. Navigating safely and efficiently in complex environments requires detecting, classifying, tracking, and understanding various attributes of surrounding objects—all in real-time and with exceptional accuracy.
As an engineer in the Scene Understanding team, you will develop advanced Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that perceive our vehicles surroundings to identify hazards and make driving suggestions. You will utilize VLA models for detecting rare events and ensuring safe driving in these situations. Youll work with state-of-the-art machine learning models that operate in real-time on our robotaxi platform with minimal latency. Collaborating with world-class engineers and researchers across sensors, planning, and other teams, youll have access to premium sensor data and cutting-edge infrastructure to validate your algorithms in real-world conditions.
In this role, you will...
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Design and train Vision-Language-Action (VLA) solutions for robotaxis
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Lead end-to-end data strategy, including mining, auto-labeling, and dataset construction to power our ML flywheel
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Lead the full post-training stack for VLMs and VLAs, including Continual Pre-training (CPT) on domain-specific driving data, Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) for instruction following.
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Utilize our large-scale data pipelines and ML infrastructure to research, prototype, and deploy solutions that improve driving behavior
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Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate perception signals
Qualifications
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MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field
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Background in deep learning solutions for VLM and VLA models
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Track record in post-training large-scale models, CPT, SFT, RL
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Hands-on experience with production ML pipelines, including dataset creation, training frameworks, and metrics
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Expertise in Python libraries (PyTorch, NumPy, Pandas, VLLM)
Bonus Qualifications
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Deep knowledge of cutting-edge computer vision techniques
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Publications in top-tier conferences (CVPR, ICCV, RSS, ICRA)
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Experience with integrating large language models to various tasks.
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