Software Engineer

Software Engineer, Fleet Mapping

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Perception team at Zoox is fundamental to our autonomous vehicle technology, creating the understanding of the world for our self-driving robots. We enable safe and efficient navigation in complex environments through sophisticated detection, classification, mapping, and tracking systems.

You will be a contributor to Zoox’s offline mapping initiative. High-definition semantic maps are critical for enabling fully autonomous driving at scale. You will design, train, validate, and integrate models that detect semantic map elements in the world. The priority will be to enable scalable mapping pipelines through automated mapping of new features.

Responsibilities

Research, implement, and train ML models to perform semantic map element detection

Curate, validate, and label datasets for model training and validation

Integrate models into the greater offboard mapping pipeline and lead automation of new mapping features

Leverage ML infrastructure to speed up development and deployment of ML models

Closely collaborate with validation teams to formulate and execute model validation pipelines

Qualifications

5+ years C++ experience

Strong understanding of networking protocols, ideally UDP

Experience working with highly resilient distributed systems

Excellent communication skills

Bonus qualities

Experience with any of the following

Any robotics experience or 3D computer vision experience is a bonus

Any mapping experience is a bonus