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# Principal Software Engineer - SLAM

- **Company:** Zoox
- **Location:** Foster City, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $254,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Algorithm Design, Big Data, C++ (Programming Language), Computer Programming, Machine Learning, Sensor Fusion, Lidar, Pose Estimation
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25304_7306c728ad9638746d43ec35097d839d

## About the Role

* Fluency in C++
 * Experience with pose estimation, SLAM, probabilistic filtering, and 3D data
 * Extensive experience with programming and algorithm design
 * Experience handling large data sets efficiently
 * 10+ years of experience in a related field

Bonus Qualifications

 * Experience with autonomous robots
 * Experience with realtime sensor fusion (e.g. IMU, LiDAR, camera, odometry, radar)
 * Knowledge of computer vision techniques and machine learning

## Description

Our Calibration, Localization, and Mapping (CLAMS) team is responsible for building the algorithms and tools necessary for keeping Zoox vehicles well calibrated, always knowing where they're located within the world, and aware of their environment. Without precise calibration, localization, and mapping our vehicles would be at a disadvantage when it comes to perceiving and reasoning about the surrounding world, and is therefore foundational in enabling results from many other teams across Zoox.

Together with the team, you will advance state of the art SLAM technology, ship systems to production, and help enable Zoox to scale our product safely and reliably. We are looking for an expert in the field to provide broad technical leadership across the entire org and execute innovative solutions utilizing deep domain expertise.

In this role, you will:

 * Act as a technical leader for the entire CLAMS organization, contributing across all team verticals
 * Help us build state-of-the-art mapping pipelines that combine data from a wide variety of sensors
 * Develop localization algorithms that make use of these maps in real time