3x founder

Oscar Beijbom

Principal Engineer at Zoox | Ph.D, Machine Learning

Co-founder

Nyckel· Winter 2022 San Francisco Bay Area

in LinkedIn

2025Principal Engineer· Zoox

Founder · since 2007

Company

Zoox

Role

Principal Engineer

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Experience

Career

Zoox
Principal Engineer · 2025 – Present
2025
Nyckel
Co-founder
Co-founder & CTO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2021 – Present
2021
SiLC Technologies, Inc
ML / perception advisor · Santa Cruz, California, United States · 2024 – 2025
2024
Motional
Senior Director of Machine Learning · 2019 – 2022
2019
nuTonomy
Founder
Team Lead Machine Learning / Principal Research Scientist · Santa Monica, CA · 2017 – 2019
2017
nuTonomy
Senior Research Scientist · 2016 – 2017
2016
UC Berkeley
Postdoctoral Researcher · 2015 – 2016
2015
Microsoft
AI Researcher · Redmond, WA · 2013
2013
Hövding Sverige AB
Founder
Founding Engineer · 2007 – 2009
2007
McKinsey & Company
Junior Consultant · 2005
2005

Bio

Oscar is the co-founder of Nyckel. He is a ML engineer and researcher with 9k citations and 20+ patents. He spent 5 years as a leader in the AV industry, been a researcher at UC Berkeley, and developed the AI behind the Hovding airbag bicycle helmet. He also developed CoralNet - the largest AI platform for coral reef image analysis. Oscar has a M.S. in Eng. Physics from Lund, and a PhD in Computer Science from UCSD.