# Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer, 3D Simulation

The 3D Simulation group at Zoox is looking for machine learning engineers to bring the latest research in 3D vision to accelerate autonomy by blurring the line between simulation and reality. Our ML group is working on generating rich and diverse 3D environments, humans, and environmental conditions using reconstruction and generative models. You will have access to the best sensor data in the world and an incredible infrastructure for testing and validation to bring new algorithms into our robotics stack. In this role, you will: Research, implement, and optimize state of the art machine learning approaches to improve 3D simulation variation and fidelity Collaborate with ML Researchers, Technical Artists and Simulation engineers to bring new ML techniques to our production simulator Train 4D generative and world models for simulating rare scenarios Build scalable, useable cloud pipelines for machine learning solutions in 3D simulation Improve rendering and tooling for generating realistic data at scale Qualifications: 7+ years of experience with Python/C++ programming and algorithm design Experience building and extending radiance field ML models Experience with generative models f

- **Id**: 3998885
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zoox-seniorstaff-machine-learning-engineer-3d-simulation>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Foster City, United States, Seattle, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2024-06-10T22:30:41Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2024-06-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T02:39:02Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 882
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1632
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Autonomous Driving, Smart Mobility, Automotive Manufacturing, Ride Hailing

## Company

- **Id**: 3626
- **Name**: Zoox
- **Domain**: zoox.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zoox>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 72
- **Open postings**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.925
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 85
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 225000
- **Max**: 320000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 320000

## Technologies

- **Blender** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Houdini** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Maya** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **World Models** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 882

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T02:39:02Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 373 · green card filings: 120; Filings 12m: 373

## Liveness

- **Score**: 13
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.459
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 882
- **Expected fill days**: 89
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T05:52:28Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 320000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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