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Job description
Zoox is hiring a Student Worker, Autonomy Safety Data Engineer — a contract, based in Foster City, CA role ($62k–$62k). Apply directly on Zoox's careers page below.
Contract Student Worker - Autonomy Safety Data Engineer
Team: Safety Policy and Strategy
Location: Foster City, CA, Boston, MA, Seattle, WA
Commitment: Contract
Workplace Type: onsite
About Zoox
Zoox is an autonomous ridehailing company building the world's first purpose-built robotaxi — fully electric, bidirectional, with no steering wheel or driver's seat. Backed by Amazon and founded to make transportation safer, cleaner, and more accessible, Zoox designs its vehicles entirely around the rider. We're currently operating in Las Vegas and San Francisco, with Austin and Miami on the horizon, and testing underway across seven U.S. markets.
About Our Part-Time Student Worker Program
Zoox's part-time student worker program puts you at the center of one of the most ambitious challenges in transportation. You'll contribute to real projects, work alongside engineers and researchers pushing the boundaries of autonomous technology, and gain experience that goes well beyond the classroom. We're looking for students who bring strong academic foundations, curiosity that doesn't stop at coursework, and a drive to be part of something that matters.
Role Overview
Responsibilities
- Support designing, building, and iterating on a data-driven safety risk model that quantifies driving performance and surfaces safety-relevant signals across the autonomy stack
- Assist developing and maintaining dataset management pipelines — curation, labeling, versioning, and quality checks — that feed the risk model and downstream analyses
- Support defining and running empirical experiments that “show it with data” rather than relying on assumptions
Required Qualifications
- Assist analyzing large-scale driving and simulation datasets to identify trends, edge cases, and opportunities to improve autonomy performance
- Currently pursuing a B.S. or M.S. in a relevant quantitative field (Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Physics, or similar)
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Help work through ambiguous, open-ended problems with a researcher’s mindset and a bias toward rapid iteration
- Solid data manipulation understanding (e.g., SQL, PySpark, Scala)
- Solid foundation in statistics, machine learning, and risk or reliability modeling
- Help communicate complex results, trade-offs, and uncertainty clearly to the team and stakeholders
- Comfort operating independently under high uncertainty on open-ended problems
Bonus Qualifications
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to convey complexity and ambiguity clearly
- Experience with safety, reliability, or risk modeling (e.g., survival analysis, Bayesian methods, causal inference)
- Experience with large-scale dataset management, data pipelines, or MLOps tooling
- Strong teamwork and collaboration skills
- Background in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or a related quantitative discipline
- Prior research experience taking ambiguous, end-to-end problems from zero to a result, independently
Program Requirements
- Genuine interest in autonomous vehicles and Zoox’s mission
- Currently enrolled in a B.S. or M.S. program in a relevant discipline.
- Available to commit to a minimum three-month assignment.
- Able to commit a minimum of 20 hours per week.
- Able to work on-site at one of our office locations.
- Must adhere with Zoox confidentiality requirements, including refraining from using or sharing proprietary company information outside of Zoox, such as in academic research, theses, publications, or presentations.
Compensation for this role is $30/hour.
This is a contract position; employment will be through a vendor contracted with Zoox. The hourly rate is as posted, and benefits eligibility is determined by the vendor.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the salary for Student Worker, Autonomy Safety Data Engineer at Zoox?
The estimated salary range for Student Worker, Autonomy Safety Data Engineer at Zoox is $62,000 - $62,000 USD per year.
What skills are required for Student Worker, Autonomy Safety Data Engineer at Zoox?
The required skills for Student Worker, Autonomy Safety Data Engineer at Zoox include: Python, SQL, Spark, Scala, Machine Learning, MLOps.
What is the seniority level for Student Worker, Autonomy Safety Data Engineer at Zoox?
Student Worker, Autonomy Safety Data Engineer at Zoox is a Entry level position.
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