Develop multi-modality foundation models to enhance autonomous system intelligence, utilizing Knowledge Distillation to optimize performance for real-time applications.
Build, pre-train, and evaluate large-scale multi-modality foundation models from the ground up, successfully aligning diverse data streams (e.g., Vision, LiDAR, Radar, Language, Audio).
Define and execute the ML roadmap for deploying these multi-modality representations to the vehicle.
Architect and implement Knowledge Distillation pipelines to compress large-capacity multi-modal teacher models into highly efficient, production-ready student models.
Build high-quality training and evaluation datasets, applying advanced data-centric techniques to maximize cross-modal representation learning and student model convergence.
Collaborate with downstream perception teams to integrate and validate the performance, robustness, and latency of your models in on-board production systems.
MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field with demonstrated professional experience.
Deep, proven expertise in building and training large-scale multi-modality foundation models (e.g., Vision-Language Models (VLMs), Vision-Audio-Text, or Vision-LiDAR-Radar architectures).
Strong understanding of cross-modal alignment, multi-modal attention mechanisms, and large-scale pre-training techniques.
Proven experience in Knowledge Distillation (KD), model compression, and training highly efficient student models for production environments.
Proficiency in ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch) and experience building large-scale ML training and evaluation pipelines.
Experience in the Autonomous Driving or robotics industry.
Experience with model deployment, optimization, and hardware constraints (e.g., C++ for inference, TensorRT, quantization, pruning).
Publications in top-tier conferences (CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL) related to multi-modality foundation models, cross-modal learning, or model compression.
Zoox is building a fully autonomous vehicle fleet from the ground up, coupled with the ecosystem necessary to launch this technology into urban environments. By integrating robotics, machine learning, and innovative design, Zoox is paving the way for a new era of mobility-as-a-service.
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