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Director, Perception

Zoox· Software – Autonomy Software
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Hybrid (Foster City, CA)$410k - $492kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Director-level leadership role responsible for building and guiding Zoox's perception stack, leading AI and perception initiatives across vision, LiDAR, radar, and long-wave IR, and delivering a robust, real-time perception system.

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead a group of managers and engineers, and be responsible for the team’s roadmap, productivity, execution and impact within the company.
  • Set the vision for, grow, and lead a team of talented software engineers in the overall planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects, while providing the team with technical leadership.
  • Collaborate with engineers and leaders across a variety of teams to brainstorm and accelerate the development of perception capabilities.
  • Provide clear summaries, progress, and recommendations to our executive leadership team.
  • Establishing best practices and statistical rigor around data-driven decision-making.
  • Stay on top of industry and academic trends in AI and perception, making sure Zoox remains at the cutting edge of both algorithms and their implementation at scale.

Qualifications

  • Strong understanding of computer vision systems and AI software stacks.
  • 8+ years of extensive leadership experience, leading teams of 40+
  • 10+ years of experience in computer vision, machine learning and related technologies.
  • Strong leadership skills suitable for recruiting, leading, growing, and managing technical team members in solving a challenging problem, and building a critical component of a real-time system.
  • Recent experience in implementing vision & perception algorithms.
  • Expertise in implementing autonomy solutions and deploying real-world systems.
  • Experience with recent AI approaches including E2E models for perception, transformers and sparse networks.
  • Experience with sensor fusion and uncertainty modeling across multiple modalities.
  • Strong presentation and communication skills.
  • MSc or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science or related fields.

Skills

Required:Computer visionLeadership and people managementVision and perception algorithmsAutonomy solutions deployment

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
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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