Zoox · 10 hours ago
Machine Learning Engineer Intern, Perception
Foster City, CA
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$5,500/mo - $9,500/mo
Start in 2026 SpringZoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. As a Machine Learning Engineer Intern, you will work on various perception teams, developing advanced models and algorithms that enhance the vehicle's understanding of its environment and improve its autonomous capabilities.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous VehiclesMachine LearningRoboticsTransportation
Responsibilities
Develop advanced multimodal large language models that enhance scenario understanding and driving
Collect and generate datasets for specialized vehicle classification and semantic enrichment
Design and frame machine learning problems for real-world autonomous driving scenarios
Train and evaluate state-of-the-art machine learning models with a focus on computer vision
Collaborate with engineers to deploy models for real-time inference on our vehicles
Develop advanced ML models that perceive our vehicle's surroundings to identify hazards and driving restrictions
Utilize vision-language models for detecting rare events and ensuring safe driving in these situations
Work with state-of-the-art machine learning models that operate in real-time on our robotaxi platform with minimal latency
Develop multimodal foundation models that serve as the common backbone for on-vehicle perception
Experiment with optimizing SOTA large ML models to make them fit into on-bot compute
Qualification
Required
Currently working towards a B.S., M.S., Ph.D., or advanced degree in a relevant engineering program
Must be returning to school to continue your education upon completing this internship
Good academic standing
Able to commit to a 12-week internship beginning in May or June of 2026
At least one previous industry internship, co-op, or project completed in a relevant area
Ability to relocate to the Bay Area, California or Boston for the duration of the internship
Interns at Zoox may not use any proprietary information they are working on as part of their thesis, any published work with their university, or to be distributed to anyone outside of Zoox
Preferred
Advanced understanding of Python or C++ (C++ preferred)
Experience with production ML pipelines: dataset creation, labeling, training, metrics
Experience training/finetuning MLLMs or at least MLLms (SFT/RL)
Experience with Vision-Language Models
Experience with model deployment with TensorRT
Experience with Neural Network design and implementation
Experience working with LiDAR, Camera and Radar data
Experience with building and processing large scale dataset
GPU/CUDA programming experience
Benefits
Medical insurance
Housing stipend
Relocation assistance will be offered based on eligibility
Company
Zoox
Zoox is an AI robotics company that provides mobility-as-a-service and self-driving car services. It is a sub-organization of Amazon.
Founded in 2014
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$955MKey Investors
Grok Ventures
2020-06-26Acquired
2019-10-21Convertible Note· $200M
2018-07-08Series B· $465M
Leadership Team
Nelson Pedreiro
Sr. Vice President, Hardware
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Zheng Gao
Director of Hardware Engineering
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