Zoox

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, ML Performance Optimization

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almost 3 years ago
Remote, United States +2 moreSenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$254k - $350k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute the strategic vision for the ML Performance Optimization team.
  • Design, implement, and operate ML training and inference performance optimization techniques.
  • Scale VLM, VLA, and foundation models and deploy them efficiently in robotaxis.
  • Collaborate with ML researchers, software engineers, data engineers, and hardware engineers on requirements and architecture.
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members.

Requirements

  • Strong experience with PyTorch and efficient GPU use for distributed model training.
  • Experience with GPU-accelerated inference using TensorRT or similar frameworks.
  • Experience using NVIDIA Nsight or PyTorch Profiler to identify training and serving bottlenecks.
  • Proficiency in Python and C++.
  • Experience with model compression techniques to reduce model size and improve performance.
  • Bonus: 10+ years of total experience, including 4+ years working on large-scale model training or inference platforms.
  • Bonus: Demonstrated ability to lead high-performing engineering teams and excellent leadership skills.

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About Zoox

1,001-5,000 employees

Zoox builds a fully autonomous, purpose-built electric vehicle and the end-to-end platform to operate it as an urban robotaxi service. The company designs the vehicle, self-driving software, and fleet operations in-house to offer mobility-as-a-service rather than selling cars. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Zoox is a subsidiary of Amazon.

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