Staff Engineer — Collision Avoidance Perception Lead

ResumeXrays LLC; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoox in Foster City seeks a Staff or Senior Staff engineer to lead CAS perception, shaping how CAS sees the world by combining interpretable geometry with machine learning and owning the architecture and roadmap for safe, real-time deployment on our fleet.

You will design and ship perception algorithms in production-ready C++, mentor engineers across CAS teams, and collaborate with perception, behavior and planning to ensure safety and evaluation readiness.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• At least 10 years of experience developing perception or related algorithms for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other real-time systems
• Deep expertise in 3D perception from lidar, radar and/or camera, with hands-on ML and classical methods
• Strong C++ or Python skills and a track record of shipping real-time software to production
• Experience leading the architecture and technical roadmap of a complex production system across multiple teams

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead and architect for CAS perception, defining how lidar, radar, and camera data become reliable obstacle detection, tracking, and collision-risk estimates under tight latency and compute budgets
• Design, implement, and ship ML and classical perception algorithms in production-quality, safety-critical C++
• Own the end-to-end CAS algorithm architecture and multi-release technical roadmap
• Partner with CAS perception, behavior and planning, and validation to define interfaces, requirements, metrics, and evaluation strategies
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across CAS

Skills

3D perception

C++

Python

Real-time systems

Leadership

Education

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related field

Tools

CUDA

TensorRT

Job description

Zoox in Foster City seeks a Staff or Senior Staff engineer to lead CAS perception, shaping how CAS sees the world by combining interpretable geometry with machine learning and owning the architecture and roadmap for safe, real-time deployment on our fleet.

You will design and ship perception algorithms in production-ready C++, mentor engineers across CAS teams, and collaborate with perception, behavior and planning to ensure safety and evaluation readiness.