# Machine Learning Engineer - Vision Foundation Models at Zoox

- Company: Zoox
- What the company does: Zoox is a purpose-built autonomous vehicle designed for riders, not drivers. Learn more about the Zoox robotaxi and the future of ride-hailing. Backed by Lux.
- Company website: https://zoox.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Foster City, CA
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $254K to $305K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-27
- Apply by: 2026-12-11
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/zoox/06f146c2-25f6-40fd-8393-4f92ce518929?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zoox-machine-learning-engineer-vision-foundation-models/

## About the role

Design, train, and evaluate vision models that understand passengers, objects, and behaviors inside the vehicle, across detection, pose, and action recognition. Independently own a model or feature area end to end: curate data, define labeling guidelines, train and evaluate models, and take them through deployment. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, or a related field with 6+ years of industry experience (PhD with 3+ years)
- Strong proficiency in Python and PyTorch for model design, training, and evaluation
- Experience with vision-language models or foundation-model backbones, and with auto-labeling or synthetic data for long-tail and rare classes
- Track record of owning the full ML lifecycle on real-world data: dataset curation and labeling guidelines, training, metric design (precision, recall, and false-positive rate at an operating point), and error analysis
- Experience with in-cabin or occupant monitoring (occupant or driver monitoring systems), ideally including multi-camera or fisheye imagery and low-light conditions
- Experience deploying deep learning models to real-time, resource-constrained systems (robotics, automotive, or edge devices) with TensorRT / ONNX or similar

Tags: Autonomy Software

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