Real job — pulled straight from Zoox’s careers page · Verified August 12, 2026 · No reposts.
Job description
Zoox is hiring a Student Worker, Machine Learning Engineer — a contract, based in Foster City, CA role ($62k–$62k). Apply directly on Zoox's careers page below.
Student Worker - Machine Learning Engineer - Data Mining & VLM
Team: Data Science
Location: Foster City, CA
Commitment: Contract
Workplace Type: hybrid
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
Support Zoox's Rules of the Road (RotR) program, where a miner + LLM/VLM tooling method automatically mines and triages potential road-rule violation events from simulation and fleet data. The student will be helping create or improve the data miners that generate the candidate events, help develop and evaluate the VLM triagers — curating golden datasets, measuring precision/recall against expert triage, and extending automation to new regulations and data sources.
Responsibilities
- Develop and iterate data miners locating potential RotR Violations following SSO requirements
- Develop and iterate on VLM/LLM workflows and pipelines for classifying RotR events
- Curate golden datasets and evaluate triager precision/recall against human triage
Required Qualifications
- Extend triagers from simulation to fleet/service data
- Strong Python / Pyspark / SQL skills
- Coursework in machine learning, computer vision, or NLP. Understanding of supervised learning, model evaluation, and common sources of dataset bias and label noise.
- Analyze error cases and translate findings into pipeline improvements
- Hands-on experience building production LLM/VLM applications, including agentic workflows, RAG, tool calling, evaluation, and/or fine-tuning.
- Familiarity with software-engineering practices such as Git, unit testing, debugging, and code reviews.
Bonus Qualifications
- Strong Scala skills.
- Experience with Spark optimization and distributed data-processing systems.
- Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, mapping, or transportation-related datasets.
Program Requirements
- Experience evaluating multimodal or vision-language models.
- Currently enrolled in a B.S. or M.S. program in a relevant discipline.
- Experience with prompt optimization, model fine-tuning, or human-in-the-loop ML systems.
- Available to commit to a minimum three-month assignment.
- Able to commit a minimum of 40 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.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the salary for Student Worker, Machine Learning Engineer at Zoox?
The estimated salary range for Student Worker, Machine Learning Engineer at Zoox is $62,000 - $62,000 USD per year.
What skills are required for Student Worker, Machine Learning Engineer at Zoox?
The required skills for Student Worker, Machine Learning Engineer at Zoox include: Python, Spark, SQL, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, Git, LLM.
What is the seniority level for Student Worker, Machine Learning Engineer at Zoox?
Student Worker, Machine Learning Engineer at Zoox is a Internship level position.
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