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# Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Perception

- **Company:** Zoox
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $242,000.0 - $290,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Machine Learning, Tensorflow, Pytorch, Information Technology
- **Published:** August 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/peldc1he1b

## About the Role

This role offers a unique opportunity to directly impact Zoox's expansion into new areas. By developing more generalizable and adaptable models, you will help us navigate diverse and challenging circumstances, accelerating our mission to deliver safe and reliable autonomous mobility. We are looking for a highly motivated individual passionate about pushing the boundaries of perception in the autonomous vehicle space., * MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

 * Experience with PyTorch or related ML frameworks
 * Experience deploying learned models into production
 * Excellent collaboration and teamwork skills with proven track record of working on large-scale problems

Bonus Qualifications

 * Prior experience in the AV or related space with joint detection and tracking models
 * Deep understanding of how to setup end-to-end training and evaluation processes

## Description

* Train ML models, perform various studies into incorporating SOTA approaches as well as ablations/modifications of existing models
 * Document experimental outcomes and drive towards deploying these models into Zoox robots
 * Visualize your data at the input and output to understand the issues
 * Collaborate with teams such as ML optimization, data labeling, metrics and planner to ensure project is successful for Zoox releases


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