Senior AI Inference Engineer - Model Optimization & Deployment
Senior AI Inference Engineer - Model Optimization & Deployment at Zoox — Foster City, CA, US
- Company: Zoox
- Location: Foster City, CA, US
- Employment type: Full-time
- Salary: $225,000–$305,000 a year
- Posted: 2026-04-11
About this role
The Perception team is pioneering the development of a multi-modality foundation model to drive the next generation of autonomous system intelligence.
As a Model Optimization & Deployment Engineer, you will focus on bringing highly efficient, production-ready large-scale models to our on-vehicle stack. We are looking for experts with hands-on experience in compressing, accelerating, and deploying complex models (LLMs, VLMs, or FMs) for power- and thermal-constrained vehicle SOCs. You will optimize the ML models, write custom CUDA kernels, and build highly concurrent inference code to ensure real-time, deterministic execution on edge devices.
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