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Zoox is an autonomous mobility company that’s created a purpose-built robotaxi to give the world a better way to ride.
The Role
Lead high-impact Perception teams, oversee technical roadmap and milestone goals, implement AI architectures, and advance perception capabilities using multi-modal sensor data.
Summary Generated by Built In
We’re reinventing personal transportation—making the future safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable. We’ve created our vehicle specifically for dense, complicated urban environments. Zoox is the only driving vehicle on the market with bidirectional driving capabilities and four-wheel steering, allowing us to maneuver through compact spaces and change directions without the need to reverse. The future is for riders!
Our growing software engineering leadership team is searching for a Director of Perception. Our perception stack is responsible for building Zoox’s world-class 3D environment model from multi-modal sensor data. We create novel AI architectures that combine the latest academic results with many in-house innovations in creative ways. Our algorithms are relentlessly optimized and tuned to run efficiently and effectively on a wide variety of real-life data as well as in simulation.
You will be responsible for leading high-impact Perception teams with their technical roadmap and milestone goals. You will be closely collaborating with other AI and SW leaders, simulation, and our systems design and mission assurance teams to deliver an exceptional dynamic objects perception system encompassing modalities such as vision, lidar, radar and long-wave IR across pipelines such as segmentation, detection, classification, fusion and tracking. You will lead a diverse, experienced team with a rapidly growing scope and responsibility while also working on some of the most complex problems in artificial intelligence, perception, and sensor fusion.
In this role, you will:
- Build and lead a group of managers and engineers, and be responsible for the team’s roadmap, productivity, execution and impact within the company.
- Set the vision for, grow, and lead a team of talented software engineers in the overall planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects, while providing the team with technical leadership.
- Collaborate with engineers and leaders across a variety of teams to brainstorm and accelerate the development of perception capabilities.
- Provide clear summaries, progress, and recommendations to our executive leadership team.
- Establishing best practices and statistical rigor around data-driven decision-making.
- Stay on top of industry and academic trends in AI and perception, making sure Zoox remains at the cutting edge of both algorithms and their implementation at scale.
Qualifications
- Strong understanding of computer vision systems and AI software stacks.
- 8+ years of extensive leadership experience, leading teams of 40+
- 10+ years of experience in computer vision, machine learning and related technologies.
- Strong leadership skills suitable for recruiting, leading, growing, and managing technical team members in solving a challenging problem, and building a critical component of a real-time system.
- Recent experience in implementing vision & perception algorithms.
- Expertise in implementing autonomy solutions and deploying real-world systems.
- Experience with recent AI approaches including E2E models for perception, transformers and sparse networks.
- Experience with sensor fusion and uncertainty modeling across multiple modalities.
- Strong presentation and communication skills.
- MSc or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science or related fields.
Bonus Qualifications
- Familiarity with perception of autonomous vehicles or similar robots
- Hands-on experience having deployed real products or platforms into the real world, and intimately understanding the challenges of working with complex systems
- Involvement in validation or evaluation of risk and/or safety-critical systems
- Knowledge of GPU and/or TPU programming (CUDA, TensorRT, etc.)
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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Accommodations
If you need an accommodation to participate in the application or interview process please reach out to [email protected] or your assigned recruiter.
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.
Skills Required
- Strong understanding of computer vision systems and AI software stacks
- 8+ years of extensive leadership experience
- 10+ years of experience in computer vision and machine learning
- Strong leadership skills for technical team management
- Recent experience in implementing vision & perception algorithms
- Expertise in autonomy solutions deployment
- Experience with recent AI approaches
- Experience with sensor fusion and uncertainty modeling
- Strong presentation and communication skills
- MSc or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science or related fields
Zoox Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Zoox and has not been reviewed or approved by Zoox.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is extensive, with broad medical and vision options, company‑paid disability coverage, and multiple mental‑health resources. Feedback suggests coverage breadth and auxiliary programs support a wide range of needs.
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Parental & Family Support — Family supports include paid parental leave, additional pregnancy disability time, fertility coverage, and adoption/surrogacy assistance. Backup care and family‑oriented programs further reinforce support across life stages.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Day‑to‑day perks are robust, including free daily meals, fitness subsidies, commuter support, and on‑site amenities. Feedback suggests these lifestyle benefits enhance convenience and workplace experience, especially for office‑based roles.
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The Company
What We Do
Zoox is an autonomous mobility company that was founded to provide a safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable future on the road. To achieve that goal, the company has spent the past 10 years creating a purpose-built robotaxi that gives the world a better way to ride.
Why Work With Us
At Zoox, we are working to solve one of the greatest technological challenges of our generation. From the beginning, we have been focused on our goal of reimagining transportation from the ground up. We are a mission-driven community of innovators working together to create a safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable future on the road.
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