Leads Zoox’s perception data organization and data flywheel, connecting fleet signals, data discovery, curation, annotation, model training, evaluation, and performance measurement. Manages a multidisciplinary team of data science, data engineering, and labeling professionals. Drives automated annotation, intelligent mining of rare and safety-critical scenarios, log selection and storage, and rigorous tradeoffs among data quality, cost, speed, and scale. Partners with machine learning, metrics, evaluation, and infrastructure teams to improve autonomous-driving models.
Perception data is core to how Zoox’s robotaxis understand the world, and as Senior Manager of Perception Data, you will own the flywheel that turns that data into safer, smarter driving.
You will lead our perception data organization, spanning data science, data engineering, and data labeling, and own how we mine logs, automate annotation, feed high value data into our models, and close the loop through analysis and measurement. The most valuable examples in our corpus are often the hardest to find: rare behaviors, unusual interactions, safety critical events, and the long tail of real world urban driving. Your role is not only to build the systems that process this data, but to decide what data matters and why, and to build the learning loop that lets Zoox improve model performance faster.
This is an opportunity for a leader who blends strategic thinking with strong execution, has done it before at scale, and knows how to partner with ML leaders, metrics pipelines, and infrastructure teams.
In this role, you will...
- Own the perception data flywheel. Run the learning loop from real world fleet signals and model behavior through data discovery, curation, and enrichment into training, evaluation, and measurement.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams. Manage and develop a 10+ person team of data science, data engineering and data labeling, setting priorities and raising the bar on execution.
- Automate annotation at scale. Drive auto annotation and auto labeling pipelines, reducing manual cost while improving label quality and throughput.
- Build advanced data miners. Develop intelligent approaches to surfacing rare, surprising, and safety critical scenarios in very large datasets, using techniques such as embeddings, semantic search, learned representations, and model driven data selection.
- Own log selection and storage. Define how we select, store, and retrieve fleet logs so the right data reaches our models efficiently and economically.
- Connect data to model performance. Establish how we measure the value of data and make rigorous trade offs across quality, accuracy, speed, cost, and scale.
- Close the loop. Feed curated data into model training and evaluation, then analyze outcomes to continuously refine what we collect and label.
- Partner cross functionally. Work closely with ML, metrics and evaluation, and infrastructure teams to keep the flywheel running reliably at scale.
Qualifications
- Track record of building and leading high performing technical teams (data science, data engineering, ML, or labeling), including managing managers or senior individual contributors.
- Deep technical expertise in computer vision, video, multimodal AI, or related perception problems.
- Experience leading large scale data capabilities that directly influence model training, evaluation, and performance.
- Strong intuition for what makes data valuable, with experience in data discovery, selection, curation, and enrichment at scale.
- Proven execution at scale, with strong technical and commercial judgment across quality, speed, cost, and build versus buy trade offs.
- Ability to move between strategy and technical detail, set direction in ambiguity, and influence senior technical and business stakeholders.
Bonus Qualifications
- Autonomous driving, robotics, or embodied AI.
- Large scale video, multimodal, or foundation model training.
- Semantic search, embeddings, active learning, auto labeling, or other approaches to intelligent data selection and enrichment.
- Large scale real world data acquisition across fleets, partners, or multiple geographies.
Zoox Foster City, California, USA Office
4000 E 3rd Ave, Foster City, CA, United States, 94404
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1149 Chess Drive, Foster City, CA, United States, 94404
Zoox Fremont, California, USA Office
47540 Kato Road, Fremont, CA, United States, 94538
Zoox San Francisco, California, USA Office
60 Broadway St, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94111
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