Hybrid Software Engineering Manager – Perception Occupancy

at Zoox

• Job title: Software Engineering Manager – Perception Occupancy
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $277,000 - $333,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Foster City, United States

About the role

• Engineering Manager leading Perception Occupancy and Rare Events team at Zoox. Responsible for developing high-impact perception systems and collaborating within AI teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of managers and engineers responsible for core occupancy modeling and rare event detection, driving the team’s roadmap, productivity, and execution.
• Own the development and deployment of critical perception models, overseeing the consolidation of multi-modal architectures and guiding technical design to enhance detection range, robustness and accuracy.
• Lead the adoption of state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning techniques—such as foundation models and efficient geometrics representations—to improve performance on long-tail classes and support geofence expansion and fleet size expansion.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with simulation and data teams to leverage synthetic data and edge-case scenarios, ensuring the perception system performs reliably in adverse weather and safety-critical environments.
• Drive organizational health by balancing technical leadership with people management, establishing best practices for data-driven decision-making, and enabling the team to scale effectively.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of computer vision systems, AI software stacks, and sensor fusion across multiple modalities.
• 3+ years of technical leadership experience, 10+ years of experience in computer vision, machine learning and related fields.
• Strong leadership skills in recruiting, leading, growing, and managing technical team members in solving challenging problems, and building critical components of a real-time system
• Expertise in implementing autonomy solutions and deploying real-world systems
• Experience with recent AI approaches including VLM, LLM, Transformers and GenAI (3D/4D GS, Diffusion, NeRF).

Benefits

• 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
• life insurance