Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Perception & Sensing

Job 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....