Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Perception
Zoox
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San Mateo, CA · $225k–$305k a year · Posted November 3, 2026
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This listing pays about $265,000 a year. Across 81 open senior machine learning engineer listings that state pay, the middle half runs $195,000 to $247,500 and the median is $222,500. That is 19% above the median, above the middle half of those listings.
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About the job
...Software /Full-time /HybridAs a Perception Engineer, you will be instrumental in designing... ...ML frameworksExperience deploying learned models into productionExcellent collaboration... ...Sitting at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and design, Zoox aims to...