- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle
- Location
- Foster CityCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Artificial Intelligence
- Posted
- Jul 17, 2026
- Salary
- $254,000–$350,000 a year
Full-time
Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Perception 3D Segmentation
Job description
Zoox — Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Perception 3D Segmentation (Foster City, California).
Job responsibilities
- Design and implement state-of-the-art multi-modal sensor fusion architectures (Lidar, Camera, Radar) to predict 3D occupancy, semantic segmentation, and flow .
- Develop "vision-first" fusion strategies to enhance geometric understanding and reduce dependency on sparse sensor modalities .
- Engineer temporal processing modules to improve the stability and consistency of predictions over time.
- Optimize model architectures for real-time on-vehicle inference, balancing high-fidelity range extension with strict latency constraints .
- Collaborate with downstream consumers (Tracking, Prediction, Planner) to refine geometric outputs, such as contours and free-space estimations, for complex maneuvering.
Job requirements
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or related field with 6+ years of industry experience.
- Deep expertise in 3D Computer Vision and Deep Learning, specifically with voxel-based or BEV (Bird's Eye View) architectures.
- Strong proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch) for model training and design as well as some experience in C++ for model integration.
- Experience with multi-sensor fusion (Lidar, Camera, Radar) and handling temporal data sequences.
- Experience with occupancy networks, implicit representations (NeRF/Gaussian Splats), or scene flow estimation.
- Experience optimizing models for TensorRT/CUDA to achieve low-latency inference.
- Familiarity with sparse convolutions or query-based architectures for efficient 3D processing.
- Experience with Vision Language Model, or multi-modal 3D foundation model, or World Model, or VLA.
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