# Oscar Beijbom

> Principal Engineer at Zoox | Ph.D, Machine Learning

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/oscarbeijbom

AI engineering manager with 30 patents, 40 publications, and 20k+ citations. Experience managing teams of over 100 people. Love hands-on coding and development.

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Zoox
Jan 2025 – Present
I work with our VP of Autonomy to support high impact project across the org. Most recently I'm focused on bringing up a unified model for perception. Other things I tinker with include:
* Foundational models for AV
* Integrated metrics stack
* Perception planner integration

### Co-founder & CTO @ Nyckel
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
* Founded the company. Defined and built core product.
* Participated in Y Combinator W22 batch. Raised over $1M.
* Sole developer of proprietary AutoML system serving 5M+ daily invokes and 1000+ daily
trainings. Independent benchmark shows best-in-class performance on par, or outper-
forming Google (Vertex AI), Huggingface and AWS.

### ML / perception advisor @ SiLC Technologies, Inc
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Santa Cruz, California, United States
* SiLC is a LiDAR startup manufacturing next-generation FMCW LiDAR sensors.
* Advised on the development and deployment of SiLC’s in-house LiDAR perception system.

### Senior Director of Machine Learning @ Motional
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
I Joined as first ML hire at NuTonomy, an MIT robotaxi acquired by Aptiv in 2017. Aptiv later
formed Motional, a joint venture with Hyundai Motor Group.

* Scaled the AI org from 40 to 110 engineers. Mentored 10+ TLMs and Directors.
* Maintained 99% retention while receiving outstanding 360 degree pref. reviews. Pro-
moted to Sr. in 2021.
* Led development of Perception and Prediction systems, overseeing ML modeling and de-
ployment on-car.
* Owned ML platform org managing Petabytes of data and GPU training infra.
* Owned Data org responsible for finding, annotating and improving ML training data.
* Owned Metrics org responsible for defining, tracking, and measuring robotaxi performance.

### Team Lead Machine Learning / Principal Research Scientist @ nuTonomy
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Santa Monica, CA
* Founded the AI team. Hired critical leads for Perception, ML platform & Data.
* Shipped object detector for vision and LiDAR.
* Created the nuScenes dataset. Cited over 6k times, nuScenes is the leading benchmark
for Robotaxi perception.

### Senior Research Scientist @ nuTonomy
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
* Joined as the first ML Research Engineer.
* Developed and shipped the first custom trained computer vision object detection system.
* Invented PointPillars. Cited over 4k times, PointPillars is the leading method for LiDAR-
based perception.

### Postdoctoral Researcher @ UC Berkeley
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
* Researched AI-based methods for analysis of scientific imagery, and bilinear pooling embedding methods.
* Published deep learning methods for coral reef analysis to CoralNet.

### AI Researcher @ Microsoft
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Redmond, WA
* Summer intern at Microsoft Research in Redmond at the Computational User Experience group with Neel Joshi and Dan Morris
* Published a novel method for automated calorie estimation using computer vision.

### Founding Engineer @ Hövding Sverige AB
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009
Joined as first employee at Hövding: the company behind the invisible bike helmet.
* Developed an AI-powered, real-time accident detection system.
* Researched, prototyped, and implemented sensor platform and embedded compute.
* Mentored and grew the AI team. Set up data collection and computing infrastructure.

### Junior Consultant @ McKinsey & Company
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005
* Participated in several client-facing projects.
* Data-collection, research, and analysis.


## Education
### Ph.D in San Diego; Computer Science
UC San Diego

### M.S; B.S in Engineering Physics
Lund University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/oscarbeijbom
- Portfolio: https://beijbom.github.io/

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