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Senior Manager, Perception

Zoox· Software – Autonomy Software
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Hybrid (Foster City, CA)$340k - $408kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Senior leadership role responsible for building and guiding perception teams to develop Zoox’s 3D environment model and perception stack, integrating vision, lidar, radar, and long-wave IR across detection, segmentation, fusion, and tracking in a hybrid work setup.

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 software engineers in planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects, while providing technical leadership.
  • Collaborate with engineers and leaders across teams to accelerate perception capabilities development.
  • Provide clear summaries, progress, and recommendations to executive leadership.
  • Establish best practices and statistical rigor around data-driven decision-making.
  • Stay on top of industry and academic trends in AI and perception, ensuring cutting-edge algorithms and scalable implementations.

Qualifications

  • Strong understanding of computer vision systems and AI software stacks.
  • 5+ years of extensive leadership experience, leading teams of 20+
  • 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 management

Benefits

  • Zoox offers a comprehensive package of benefits, including 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, and life insurance.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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