Senior Manager, Perception Data & Safety Flywheel

Lever, Inc.; California (MO); On-site; USD 339,000 - 375,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Stock Appreciation Rights

RSUs

Job summary

Zoox is seeking a Senior Manager of Perception Data to own the flywheel that converts real-world fleet signals into safe, smarter driving. You will lead data science, data engineering, and labeling initiatives, shaping data that feeds model training and evaluation.

The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution, partnering with ML, metrics, and infrastructure teams to ensure data quality, reliability, and scale across the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large technical data teams at scale.
• Deep expertise in computer vision, video, multimodal AI.
• Proven execution driving data-driven model improvements.

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.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams. Manage and develop a 10+ person team of data science, data engineering and data labeling, setting priorities and raising the bar on execution.
• Automate annotation at scale. Drive auto annotation and auto labeling pipelines, reducing manual cost while improving label quality and throughput.
• Build advanced data miners. Develop intelligent approaches to surfacing rare, surprising, and safety critical scenarios in very large datasets, using embeddings, semantic search, learned representations, and model driven data selection.
• Own log selection and storage. Define how we select, store, and retrieve fleet logs so the right data reaches our models efficiently and economically.
• Connect data to model performance. Establish how we measure the value of data and make rigorous trade offs across quality, accuracy, speed, cost, and scale.
• Close the loop. Feed curated data into model training and evaluation, then analyze outcomes to continuously refine what we collect and label.
• Partner cross functionally. Work closely with ML, metrics and evaluation, and infrastructure teams to keep the flywheel running reliably at scale.

Skills

Data science leadership

Computer vision

Multimodal AI

Data engineering

ML systems

Strategic execution

Job description

Zoox is seeking a Senior Manager of Perception Data to own the flywheel that converts real-world fleet signals into safe, smarter driving. You will lead data science, data engineering, and labeling initiatives, shaping data that feeds model training and evaluation.

The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution, partnering with ML, metrics, and infrastructure teams to ensure data quality, reliability, and scale across the organization.