Senior Manager, Perception Data
Hybrid (Foster City, CA)$339k - $375kFull-timePosted 3w ago
About the role
Perception data is core to how Zoox’s robotaxis understand the world. This role leads the perception data organization (data science, data engineering, data labeling) and shapes how data is mined, annotated, and fed into models to improve safety and performance at scale.
Responsibilities
- Own the perception data flywheel. Run the learning loop from real world fleet signals and model behavior through data discovery, curation, and enrichment into training, evaluation, and measurement.
Qualifications
- Track record of building and leading high performing technical teams (data science, data engineering, ML, or labeling), including managing managers or senior individual contributors.
- Deep technical expertise in computer vision, video, multimodal AI, or related perception problems.
- Experience leading large scale data capabilities that directly influence model training, evaluation, and performance.
- Strong intuition for what makes data valuable, with experience in data discovery, selection, curation, and enrichment at scale.
- Proven execution at scale, with strong technical and commercial judgment across quality, speed, cost, and build versus buy trade offs.
- Ability to move between strategy and technical detail, set direction in ambiguity, and influence senior technical and business stakeholders.
Skills
Required:Data science leadershipComputer vision and multimodal AI
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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