Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Scene Understanding

As an engineer in the Scene Understanding team at Zoox, you will develop advanced Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that perceive our vehicle's surroundings to identify hazards and make driving suggestions.

Requirements

• Design and train Vision-Language-Action (VLA) solutions for robotaxis
• Lead end-to-end data strategy, including mining, auto-labeling, and dataset construction to power our ML flywheel
• Lead the full post-training stack for VLMs and VLAs, including Continual Pre-training (CPT) on domain-specific driving data, Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) for instruction following.
• Utilize our large-scale data pipelines and ML infrastructure to research, prototype, and deploy solutions that improve driving behavior
• Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate perception signals

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Unpaid time off
• Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
• Amazon RSUs
• Health insurance
• Long-term care insurance
• Long-term and short-term disability insurance
• Life insurance