Remote Jobs RockRemote Jobs Rock

Staff / Senior Staff Software Engineer - Collision Avoidance System

🕒 2 days ago
📍 🇺🇸 Foster City - Hybrid🎺 Lead💻 Software Engineer💼 Full-Time
3D PerceptionLidarRadarCamera
Apply Now

📜 Description

  • Lead CAS perception architecture, turning lidar, radar, and camera data into obstacle detection, tracking, and collision-risk estimates.
  • Design, implement, and ship machine-learning and classical perception algorithms in production-quality, safety-critical C++.
  • Own the end-to-end algorithm architecture and multi-release technical roadmap, balancing safety, performance, latency, compute, and ML approaches.
  • Partner with perception, planning, and validation teams to define interfaces, requirements, metrics, and safety evaluation strategies.
  • Drive cross-team technical decisions and mentor engineers across CAS.

🛠️ Requirements

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • At least 10 years of experience developing perception or related algorithms for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other real-time systems
  • Deep expertise in 3D perception from lidar, radar, and/or camera, with hands-on experience in both machine learning (detection, segmentation, fusion) and classical methods (geometry, state estimation, tracking)
  • Strong C++ or Python skills and a track record of shipping efficient, reliable real-time software to production
  • Experience leading the architecture and technical roadmap of a complex production system across multiple teams
  • Conference or Journal publications in Machine Learning or Robotics-related venues
  • Experience with safety-critical systems or functional safety practices (e.g., ISO 26262, SOTIF), collision avoidance, emergency braking, prediction, or planning systems for autonomous vehicles
  • Experience optimizing and deploying models or algorithms on onboard compute (e.g., GPU / CUDA, TensorRT)
Full job description
The Collision Avoidance System (CAS) is Zoox's independent safety layer. It runs alongside our main autonomy stack, constantly watches for imminent collisions, and reacts within milliseconds to prevent or reduce them. By using different methods and data paths than the main stack, CAS gives our robotaxi a second, diverse line of defense in the most challenging dense urban environments.

As a Staff or Senior Staff engineer, you will be the technical lead for CAS algorithms, with a focus on CAS perception. You will shape how CAS sees the world, combining interpretable geometric methods with machine learning, and you will own the architecture and roadmap that take these capabilities from idea to safe, real-time deployment on our fleet. Your work will directly affect the safety of every rider and road user around our vehicles.

In this role, you will:

  • Serve as the technical lead and architect for CAS perception, defining how lidar, radar, and camera data become reliable obstacle detection, tracking, and collision-risk estimates under tight latency and compute budgets
  • Design, implement, and ship both machine learning and classical perception algorithms (e.g., point-cloud geometry, ground estimation, clustering, state estimation and tracking, learned detection and segmentation, sensor fusion) in production-quality, safety-critical C++
  • Own the end-to-end CAS algorithm architecture and multi-release technical roadmap, making clear trade-offs between safety, performance, latency, compute, and ML vs. non-ML approaches
  • Partner across CAS perception, behavior and planning, and validation to define interfaces, requirements, metrics, and evaluation strategies that show the system is safe and ready to launch
  • Work with sensor, system performance, safety strategy, and main autonomy teams to drive cross-team technical decisions, while mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across CAS

    • Qualifications

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field, or equivalent experience

  • At least 10 years of experience developing perception or related algorithms for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other real-time systems

  • Deep expertise in 3D perception from lidar, radar, and/or camera, with hands-on experience in both machine learning (detection, segmentation, fusion) and classical methods (geometry, state estimation, tracking)

  • Strong C++ or Python skills and a track record of shipping efficient, reliable real-time software to production

  • Experience leading the architecture and technical roadmap of a complex production system across multiple teams

    • Bonus Qualifications

  • Conference or Journal publications in Machine Learning or Robotics-related venues

  • Experience with safety-critical systems or functional safety practices (e.g., ISO 26262, SOTIF), collision avoidance, emergency braking, prediction, or planning systems for autonomous vehicles

  • Experience optimizing and deploying models or algorithms on onboard compute (e.g., GPU / CUDA, TensorRT)

    • Apply Now

    Similar jobs

    Search more Software Engineer jobs
    Kueski

    Principal Software Engineer

    🔥 22 hours ago
    Kueski
    WebsiteAll Job Openings

    Own multi-year technical strategy and architecture across Kueski’s products and platforms, lead its AI-native engineering transformation, and guide senior engineers toward reliable, secure systems at scale.

    📍 🇲🇽 Guadalajara - Hybrid💼 Full-Time🎺 Lead💻 Software Engineer📢 🇬🇧 English Required📢 🇪🇸 Spanish Required
    Distributed SystemsFinancial Domain ModelingMoney MovementLedgering
    View jobApply
    Databricks

    Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

    🕒 yesterday
    Databricks👥 10,000+ employees🏢 Software Development🤝 B2B
    WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

    Lead complex customer-facing data and AI implementations for government customers, owning architecture and delivery while mentoring teams, scaling reusable solutions, and connecting technical decisions to measurable outcomes.

    📍 🇵🇪 Huayo - Hybrid💰 $219.8k - $302.2k / year💼 Full-Time🎺 Lead💻 Software Engineer
    Data EngineeringData PlatformsAnalyticsPython
    View jobApply
    View more Software Engineer jobs

    Trusted by Remote Workers