- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle
- Location
- Foster CityCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Artificial Intelligence
- Posted
- May 28, 2026
- Salary
- $177,000–$270,000 a year
Full-time
Software Engineer, ML Performance Optimization
Job description
Zoox — Software Engineer, ML Performance Optimization (Foster City, California).
Job responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate cutting-edge ML Training OR Inference performance optimization techniques to scale our VLM, VLA, and Foundational models and deploy them efficiently in our robotaxi.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including ML researchers, software engineers, data engineers, and hardware engineers, to define requirements and align on architectural decisions.
Job requirements
- 4+ years of total experience, including 2+ years of working on large-scale model training or inference platforms.
- Experience with training frameworks like PyTorch, leveraging GPUs efficiently for distributed model training.
- Experience with GPU-accelerated inference using TensorRT or similar frameworks.
- Experience using profiling tools like NVIDIA's Nsight or PyTorch's Profiler for identifying model training and serving bottlenecks.
- Proficient in Python or C++.
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