About this role
Zoox has a vacancy for the role of Engineering Manager, ML Performance Optimization in Foster City, CA. This is a full-time position with a stated salary of $276,000 – $343,000 a year. The listing was posted on Oct 6, 2026. PakkiNaukri collects this listing from the employer's own posting and re-checks it — the employer's full description and the application itself are on the original listing, linked from this page.
From the employer's listing (short excerpt)
Zoox is on a mission to reimagine transportation and build autonomous robotaxis from the ground up that are safe, reliable, clean, and enjoyable for everyone. With bidirectional driving capabilities and four-wheel steering, our vehicle allows us to maneuver through compact spaces and change directions without needing to reverse. We are at a critical inflection point as we scale our robotaxi deployment, and it is a great time to join Zoox and have a significant impact on executing our mission.
Our growing ML performance engineering leadership team is looking for an Engineering Manager, ML Performance Optimization. The centralized ML performance team at Zoox plays a crucial role in enabling innovations across all our ML research teams to develop and deploy models across our robotaxi and cloud infrastructure and to advance cutting-edge training and inference optimization techniques.
The Opportunity
We are working on many interesting challenges to enable rapid experimentation and scale our multi-modal Foundation models and RL infrastructure, and ensure these models run efficiently on our vehicles, meeting our latency targets.