Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Machine Learning & System Optimization

What this role involves

Zoox is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer for the Perception team to work on multi-modality foundation models and system optimization. The role involves compressing and deploying large models (LLMs, VLMs) on power-constrained vehicle SoCs, writing custom CUDA kernels, and building highly concurrent inference code for real-time execution on edge devices.

Skills this posting asks for

• machine learning
• system optimization
• cuda
• inference
• llm
• vlm
• perception
• soc
• edge devices
• concurrent programming
• model compression
• deployment
• foundation models
• real-time systems
• autonomous vehicles

Requirements

• Level: senior

From the employer’s posting

The Perception team is pioneering the development of a multi-modality foundation model to drive the next generation of autonomous system intelligence. As a Machine Learning and System Optimization Engineer, you will orchestrate and allocate overall system capacity to various core perception models…