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Perception
Senior/StaffSoftwareEngineer-Perception&Sensing
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“Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Perception & Sensing. Skills: Perception & Sensing, PCP stack, multi-sensor fusion, ML models, technical validation, experimental design. Execute the PCP metrics pipeline. assess how hardware updates across various sensors impact PCP performance sensitivity in 3D scene understanding, live mapping and localization, especially in adverse weather and winter conditions”
What You'll Achieve.
drive the evaluation and architectural design of our PCP stack for future vehicle platforms enabling winter driving and low cost vehicle platforms; ensure that as Zoox evolves toward future platforms, every sensor change across all modalities (Lidar, Radar, Camera etc) is validated with mathematical rigor; clear sensors for the winter ODD; improve Perception performance for highway and adverse weather
Industry & Context.
Root cause detection regressions; understand how early fusion models compensate for modality degradation in challenging environments
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
C++, Python, A testing methodology (RBV - Risk Balanced Verification), diverse perception outputs and how environmental factors (like snow or fog) degrade bounding box precision/recall, point clouds, and 3D occupancy, complex data collection plans for winter ODDs (e.g. , specific snow types, ice, low temperatures), designing, developing and deploying multi-modality fusion based Perception models for 3D object detection, 3D segmentation & occupancy, Mapping and Localization
Nice to Have
performance optimization to fit complex ML stack to low-power low cost edge compute (e.g. , Nvidia Thor, TensorRT optimization), designing better sensor or better ML model for an anomaly or rare event/objects detection
What You'll Do.
Execute the PCP metrics pipeline
assess how hardware updates across various sensors impact PCP performance sensitivity in 3D scene understanding
live mapping and localization
especially in adverse weather and winter conditions
Design and run structured A testing experiments
correlate sensor-specific lab tests to downstream PCP performance
Root cause detection regressions to understand how early fusion models compensate for modality degradation in challenging environments
Design & develop performant and efficient multi-sensor fusion model
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
acts as the bridge between Perception Software and Autonomous Hardware Engineering (AHE); Collaborate with AHE to correlate sensor-specific lab tests
Full Job Description
## Description The Perception Sensing team is looking for a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to drive the evaluation and architectural design of our PCP stack for future vehicle platforms enabling winter driving and low cost vehicle platforms. This team acts as the bridge between Perception Software and Autonomous Hardware Engineering (AHE). We ensure that as Zoox evolves toward future platforms, every sensor change across all modalities (Lidar, Radar, Camera etc) is validated with mathematical rigor. The role focuses on executing the technical validation pipeline and experimental design across the entire sensor suite. ## Responsibilities Execute the PCP metrics pipeline, assessing how hardware updates across various sensors impact PCP performance sensitivity in 3D scene understanding, live mapping and localization, especially in adverse weather and winter conditions. Design and run structured A/B testing experiments, including side-by-side custom mount runs and tandem vehicle data collection, to clear sensors for the winter ODD. Collaborate with AHE to correlate sensor-specific lab tests (e.g., heater/defroster impacts on camera lenses, snow accumulation on radomes) to downstream PCP performance. Root cause detection regressions to understand how early fusion models compensate for modality degradation in challenging environments. Design & develop performant and efficient multi-sensor fusion model to leverage the complementary advantage of on-board (low cost) sensors to improve Perception performance for highway and adverse weather. ## Qualifications Strong C++ and Python for running and modifying PCP metrics pipelines, automated testing, and re-simulations. Experience with A/B testing methodology (RBV - Risk Balanced Verification) for evaluating hardware/software changes in varied environments. Familiarity with diverse perception outputs and how environmental factors (like snow or fog) degrade bounding box precision/recall, point clouds, and 3D occupancy. Ability
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