over 10 years ago
Foster City, CA, USA or Seattle, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$189k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Create and implement principled algorithmic improvements to driving behavior in the codebase
- Use backend tooling to test changes across many driving situations
- Lead on-vehicle drive reviews and turn driving-performance feedback into improvements
- Stay informed about developments in robotics and motion planning through conferences and literature reviews
- Write and file patents for novel technologies
Requirements
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field and relevant experience
- Fluency in C++
- Understanding of configuration spaces and planning techniques including A*, RRTs, and PRMs
- Demonstrated ability to create real-time motion-planning algorithms
- Significant contributions to geometric- or sampling-based planning algorithms are a bonus
- Experience with autonomous robots and machine learning or data-driven development processes is a bonus
- Experience with ROS, pose estimation, SLAM, probabilistic filtering, 3D data, or CUDA is a bonus
Benefits
- Paid time off including sick leave, vacation, and bereavement leave
- Unpaid time off
- Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights and Amazon RSUs
- Health insurance
- Long-term care insurance
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
Tech Stack
Categories
Robotics
About Zoox
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.