Software Engineer - Learned Trajectory Machine Learning Engineer

Job overview

Software Engineer - Learned Trajectory Machine Learning Engineer is an onsite, full-time role in Foster City, CA, with a base salary range of $189,000–$270,000 per year. Zoox is developing a fully autonomous vehicle fleet and mobility-as-a-service ecosystem; this role supports its Prediction & Behavior ML team. The engineer develops learned models that generate vehicle trajectories and methods to assess driving-plan quality across safety, progress, and comfort. The work advances autonomous driving behavior through collaboration with Planner, Perception, and Simulation teams and through analysis of system errors and improvements.

What you'll do

• Develop deep learning models using imitation learning and reinforcement learning to generate autonomous-vehicle driving plans
• develop techniques to estimate driving-plan quality across safety, progress, and comfort
• use large-scale machine learning infrastructure to explore solutions
• develop metrics and tools to analyze errors and system improvements
• collaborate with Perception, Planning, and Simulation engineers on autonomous driving in complex urban environments.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

software engineer

learned trajectory

machine learning

full-time

onsite

foster city ca

zoox

autonomous vehicles

deep learning

imitation learning

reinforcement learning

c++

python

$189k–$270k

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Paid time off
• health insurance
• long-term care insurance
• long- and short-term disability insurance
• life insurance
• Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights and Amazon RSUs.

Why this role

The posting seeks experience training and deploying transformer-based architectures and reinforcement learning, production machine-learning pipelines, and fluency in C++ or Python with basic C++ understanding. Base salary is one component of compensation; stock awards and a possible sign-on bonus are also described.

About the employer

Zoox is hiring for this role. Industry: Custom Computer Programming Services. Sector: 54.