Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Machine Learning & System Optimization
Hybrid (Foster City, CA / Boston, MA / Seattle, WA)$254k - $350kFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Senior/Staff Software Engineer focused on ML systems and optimization for on-vehicle perception models, including LLMs/VLMs and foundation models. Responsible for allocating system resources, optimizing inference, and building production-ready, low-latency edge deployments on automotive SoCs.
Responsibilities
- Allocate and distribute system resources (CPU/GPU/interconnect) to various models and inference engines running on the robot.
Qualifications
- Deep experience in system and performance optimization in CPU/GPU systems designed for low latency or high throughput.
Skills
Required:System and performance optimizationReal-time/edge ML inferenceModel quantization (PTQ, QAT) and mixed-precisionCUDA kernel developmentC++ (14/17/20) and Python
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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