Senior/Staff Software Engineer, ML Training Optimization is open at Zoox in Foster City, CA. The posting gives a salary of $254K - $350K. Posted on Oct 16, 2026, and still on Zoox’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Are you excited to own ML training optimization at Zoox and make the models that power autonomous driving train faster, cheaper, and at greater scale? You’ll set technical direction for distributed training, parallelism strategies, mixed-precision training, and RL on SOTA accelerators, especially for multi-modal VLA and VLM models. You’ll partner with all Autonomy teams (Perception, Prediction, Planner, Simulation…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Zoox’s careers page.
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