Director of Perception & AI Vision Systems

Zoox; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 410,000 - 492,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights

Amazon RSUs

Paid time off

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Long-term care insurance

Job summary

Zoox is seeking a Director of Perception to lead high-impact perception teams and own the technical roadmap. You will guide multi-modal sensing (vision, lidar, radar, long-wave IR) and real-time perception pipelines across segmentation, detection, fusion, and tracking, coordinating with AI, simulation, and systems groups.

The role demands 8+ years leading large CV/ML teams, deep expertise in computer vision, autonomy, and risk-aware deployment in real-world systems, with strong communication to

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.

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.

Skills

Computer vision systems

AI software stacks

Leadership 40+ engineers

CV/ML experience 10+ yrs

Autonomy solutions deployment

E2E perception models

Transformers and sparse networks

Sensor fusion

Communication and presentation

Education

MSc or PhD in Robotics/CS

Job description

Zoox is seeking a Director of Perception to lead high-impact perception teams and own the technical roadmap. You will guide multi-modal sensing (vision, lidar, radar, long-wave IR) and real-time perception pipelines across segmentation, detection, fusion, and tracking, coordinating with AI, simulation, and systems groups.

The role demands 8+ years leading large CV/ML teams, deep expertise in computer vision, autonomy, and risk-aware deployment in real-world systems, with strong communication to