Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Perception Localization

Number of employees

4100

Foster City, CA, USA

Posted on: 2026-05-05

Category: emobility

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Senior

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Zoox is transforming mobility-as-a-service by developing a fully autonomous, purpose-built fleet designed for AI to drive and humans to enjoy.


The Perception team at Zoox is fundamental to our autonomous vehicle technology, creating the understanding of the world for our self-driving robots. We enable safe and efficient navigation in complex environments through sophisticated detection, classification, and tracking systems.

As an engineer on the Localization team, you will be a key contributor to Zoox’s online pose estimation systems. This role focuses on improving the ML systems that utilize cameras for Localization. You will design, train, validate, and integrate computer vision models into the online software system. Your work will enable important milestones to scaling and autonomy capabilities and will be critical to the success of Zoox.

About Zoox
Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. Sitting at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and design, Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobility-as-a-service in urban environments. We’re looking for top talent that shares our passion and wants to be part of a fast-moving and highly execution-oriented team.


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A Final Note:
You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. Here at Zoox, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to be successful, and we are committed to building a team that encompasses a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

In this role, you will...

  • Research, implement, and train ML models to perform vision based localization

  • Curate datasets for model training and validation

  • Closely collaborate with validation teams to formulate and execute model validation pipelines

  • Integrate models into the greater onboard autonomy system within compute budgets

  • Be a technical leader on the team, maintaining coding and ML development best practices and contributing to architectural decisions

  • Qualifications

  • MS plus 7+ years in Computer Science or related field

  • Experience in computer vision based pose estimation 

  • Experience with training and deploying deep learning models

  • Experience with with Python libraries (pytorch, numpy)

  • Experience with C++

  • Bonus Qualifications

  • Experience with SLAM systems which incorporate ML models

  • Experience in robotics or autonomous systems

  • Experience with CUDA and/or GPU programming

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