Zoox
Zoox
Zoox develops autonomous mobility technology and a purpose-built fleet for mobility-as-a-service. Its work brings together robotics, artificial intelligence, vehicle engineering, electric vehicles, and advanced sensing to create transportation designed to be safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable. The company is focused on reshaping how people experience personal mobility through fully autonomous vehicles built around the needs of riders.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, 3D Sensor Simulation

Develop realistic lidar, radar, and camera simulations for Zoox autonomous vehicles. Build sensor-data models, synthetic datasets, and 3D reconstruction pipelines.

Description

  • Train and validate machine learning models to make simulated lidar, radar, and camera data more realistic in autonomous vehicle simulation pipelines.
  • Work with Synthetic Data and HIL Sim teams to integrate 3D Gaussian Splatting and NeRF-based reconstruction across sensor modalities.
  • Create and curate datasets from real and simulated sensor data, using generative AI techniques for augmentation.
  • Work with simulation verification and validation and perception engineers to define sensor realism metrics and address sim-to-real gaps in autonomy.
  • Mentor engineers and interns.
  • Set best practices for training and deploying machine learning on Zoox sensor data.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of experience as a technical lead.
  • At least 5 years of experience developing machine learning models in Python with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • Industry experience applying machine learning to sensor data, including lidar, radar, and/or cameras.
  • Strong understanding of customizing, tuning, and validating machine learning training pipelines.
  • Experience with generative methods such as diffusion, flow matching, or variational autoencoders.
  • Experience with 3D reconstruction, including 3D Gaussian Splatting, NeRFs, or differentiable rendering.
  • Prior experience developing autonomy for autonomous vehicles or other robotics and computer vision applications.

Benefits

  • Paid sick leave, vacation, and bereavement leave.
  • Unpaid time off.
  • Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights.
  • Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
  • Health insurance.
  • Long-term care insurance.
  • Long-term and short-term disability insurance.
  • Life insurance.
  • A sign-on bonus may be offered.

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