Machine Learning Engineer, 3D Simulation

Zoox is an American autonomous vehicle company currently headquartered in Foster City, California, United States with multiple offices of operations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The company was founded in…

Location: Foster City, CA
Company size: 2,000–5,000
Posted: 2y ago
Via: Lever

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Machine Learning Engineer, 3D Simulation - Zoox

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Job Title: Machine Learning Engineer, 3D Simulation
Job Location: Foster City, CA
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/zoox/2d73563c-8039-4d1b-844c-3953259ba6b1
Job Description: The 3D Simulation group at Zoox is looking for machine learning engineers to bring the latest research in 3D vision to improve diversity and blur the line between simulation and reality. You will have access to the best sensor data in the world and an incredible infrastructure for testing and validating your algorithms. Our ML group is working on generating rich and diverse 3D environments, humans, and environmental conditions, and you will be able to contribute to all of these.
In this role, you will:
Research, implement, and optimize state of the art machine learning approaches to improve simulation variation and fidelity

Collaborate with ML Researchers, Technical Artists and Simulation engineers to bring new ML techniques to our production simulator

Build scalable, useable cloud pipelines for machine learning solutions in 3D simulation

Improve rendering and tooling for generating realistic data at scale
Qualifications
3+ years of experience with programming and algorithm design

Fluency in Python and C++

Experience building and extending radiance field ML models

Publications or production experience in human-centric 3D vision, 3D reconstruction, or style transfer

Strong mathematical skills and understanding of probabilistic techniques
Bonus Qualifications
Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in computer science, mathematics, physics, or related field

Publications in your field (CVPR, ICCV, RSS, ICRA preferred)

Experience with generative models for 3D or video content

Experience automating 3D content pipelines using applications like Houdini, Maya, or Blender

Experience in distributed systems and cloud computing platforms

Experience in generative camera, lidar, radar, or LWIR