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Senior AI Inference Engineer - Model Optimization & Deployment

Zoox · Foster City, CA

Posted about 3 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
79 days
Zoox's roles stay open a median of 80 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
2% of Zoox's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Zoox
high
241 stale, 2 reposted of 249 open
Hiring momentum
309 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-23

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Zoox's own lever board since 2026-08-04. Full hiring picture for Zoox.

About this role

As a Senior AI Inference Engineer focusing on Model Optimization & Deployment, you will work on optimizing and deploying large-scale models for autonomous vehicles. Your role will involve compressing and accelerating complex models, writing custom CUDA kernels, and ensuring real-time execution on edge devices within power and thermal constraints.

Our read on this posting2.2out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Zoox as an employer.

What you need

  • Hands-on experience in compressing, accelerating, and deploying complex models (LLMs, VLMs, or FMs)
  • Experience with power- and thermal-constrained vehicle SOCs
  • Ability to optimize ML models
  • Proficiency in writing custom CUDA kernels
  • Experience building highly concurrent inference code
  • Capability to ensure real-time, deterministic execution on edge devices

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • Focus on a specific niche in AI and autonomous systems may limit broader marketability
  • Role emphasizes hands-on technical skills, which may not appeal to those seeking managerial or strategic positions

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Listed by Zoox on their lever job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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