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Senior / Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Behavior Models for Road Users

Zoox is hiring for Senior / Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Behavior Models for Road Users in Foster City, CA. Staff level. First seen August 6, 2026; open as of November 12, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Zoox
Where
Foster City, CA
Level
Staff
First seen
August 6, 2026
Listed via
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What the posting says

This role in the Offline Driving Intelligence team is responsible for developing/learning behavior models for road users such as cars, bicycles, and pedestrians. These agents populate Zoox's simulations and must be indistinguishable from real road users, yet fully controllable: promptable into the rare, adversarial, safety-critical behaviors we need to test against. This means the team’s models directly impact how fast Zoox can train, validate and ship its driving stack. Our team collaborates closely with Planner, Simulation and Validation teams to develop and validate our driving…

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