Senior Manager, Perception Detection
Job Summary
Job Description
Zoox is seeking a Senior Manager of Perception to lead their perception stack, responsible for creating a world-class 3D environment model from multi-modal sensor data. The role involves building and leading teams, setting technical roadmaps, and collaborating with AI and SW leaders. Responsibilities include developing novel AI architectures, optimizing algorithms for efficiency, and delivering exceptional dynamic objects perception systems across various modalities like vision, lidar, and radar. This position requires addressing complex challenges in artificial intelligence, perception, and sensor fusion within a rapidly growing scope.
Must have:
- Strong understanding of computer vision systems and AI software stacks.
- 5+ years of extensive leadership experience, leading teams of 20+.
- 10+ years of experience in computer vision, machine learning and related technologies.
- Strong leadership skills for managing technical team members.
- 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, transformers and sparse networks.
- Experience with sensor fusion and uncertainty modeling.
- Strong presentation and communication skills.
- MSc or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science or related fields.
Good to have:
- Familiarity with perception of autonomous vehicles or similar robots.
- Hands-on experience having deployed real products or platforms into the real world.
- Involvement in validation or evaluation of risk and/or safety-critical systems.
- Knowledge of GPU and/or TPU programming (CUDA, TensorRT, etc.).
Perks:
- Paid time off (sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
- Unpaid time off
- Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
- Amazon RSUs
- Health insurance
- Long-term care insurance
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
8 skills required
Job Details
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 Senior Manager 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.
- 5+ years of extensive leadership experience, leading teams of 20+
- 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.)
$308,000 - $370,000 a year
Base Salary Range
There are three major components to compensation for this position: salary, Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights. A sign-on bonus may be offered as part of the compensation package. The listed range applies only to the base salary. Compensation will vary based on geographic location and level. Leveling, as well as positioning within a level, is determined by a range of factors, including, but not limited to, a candidate's relevant years of experience, domain knowledge, and interview performance. The salary range listed in this posting is representative of the range of levels Zoox is considering for this position.
Zoox also offers a comprehensive package of benefits, including paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement), unpaid time off, Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights, Amazon RSUs, health insurance, long-term care insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, and life insurance.
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