SeniorStaff Software Engineer Dynamic Agent Interactions
Job Location:
Foster, CA - USA
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Job Summary
On the Dynamic Agent Interactions (DAI) team at Zoox you will be dedicated to improving the driving behavior of our autonomous vehicles. DAI handles dynamic interactions with dynamic vehicles and dynamic environments ensuring our vehicles navigate safely and comfortably through complex scenarios such as the dense traffic of Downtown San Francisco Las Vegas Austin Miami and more.
This is a cutting-edge problem which requires teamwork and close collaboration with experts from Planner Perception Prediction Operations and more. Together you will innovate through data-driven ML models and algorithmic enhancements significantly improving our robots ability to handle the most complex driving scenarios on public roads.
Safety is foundational at Zoox so you will take a measured approach develop principled modifications test in simulation and validate on closed courses before on-road deployment.
Develop and execute on the technical roadmap for the DAIs integration with Scene Understanding and Perception Mapping to deliver end-to-end desired driving behavior in complex dynamic environments.
Lead the design implementation and delivery of desired driving behaviors through applied ML.
Serve as a technical leader within the DAI team by contributing to design decisions fostering our One Zoox culture and maintaining high standards across Planner and ML development.
Leverage our extensive backend tooling to develop validation strategies define performance metrics and test changes across many different driving situations.
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field and 7 years of experience
Fluency in C and Python
Demonstrated ability to create architectural enhancement to complex real-time systems
Experience delivering ML model integration in latency-sensitive systems
Experience working on the autonomy stack of autonomous robots or vehicles
Experience contributing to the ongoing development of new architecture based on new state of the art ML research
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Staff IC
About Company
We’re reinventing personal transportation—making the future safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable for everyone. This is on-demand autonomous ride-hailing.
