Contract Student Worker - Machine Learning Engineer - Data Mining & VLM (Full-time)

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 This role focuses on building a data-driven safety risk model that quantifies and improves autonomous-vehicle driving performance, along with the data analysis work that supports it. The student will work within the Safety Strategy & Operations team on a 6-month project spanning model development, empirical experimentation, and large-scale driving/simulation data analysis. 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 <l

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 Contract Student Worker Program Zoox's contract 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 Create flexible framework dashboards that can accommodate multiple KPI elements. Incorporate new KPI's as needed and continuously seek to improve dashboards Responsibilities Support of Vehicle Engineering Dashboard project, including: Interviewing managers to understand what metrics they need to track Gap Analysis: Work with Zoox internal data team to identify existing dashboard platforms and data sources. Develop plans to collect data to track items not currently covered. Collaborate with IT: To establish mechanisms to push standard and custom dashboards to targeted people and to public screens Document process, findings and future plans Required Qualifications Mathematics, Any Engineering Discipline, Technical backgrounds, Information design or UI/UX Bonus Qualifications Specialty or Prior Experie

About Zoox Zoox is an autonomous ride-hailing 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 This role requires supporting the end-to-end validation pipeline for AI tools: maintaining test datasets, running benchmarks, and measuring agent accuracy across routing decisions, classification labels, and structured output fields. Responsibilities Run and maintain the benchmark pipeline, analyzing results to identify routing errors and regressions across agent variants Build and expand ground truth datasets used to evaluate agent outputs against known-correct answers Identify and address gaps in benchmark validation and support building a more comprehensive evaluation infrastructure to improve validation prior to release Develop new evaluation dimensions such as label accuracy and structured output correctness beyond the existing team classification benchmarks Investigate failure modes in agent outputs and work with engineers to surface actionable improvements Write scripts and tooling to automate data collection, result parsing, and metric repo

About Zoox Zoox is transforming mobility with fully autonomous, electric vehicles designed from the ground up for a driverless future. Our mission is to make transportation safer, more sustainable, and accessible to everyone. At Zoox, innovation, collaboration, and a bold vision for the future drive everything we do. About Our Part Time Student Worker Program Zoox’s program offers hands-on experience with cutting-edge technology, mentorship from some of the industry’s brightest minds, and the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to real projects. We seek part time student workers who demonstrate strong academic performance, engagement beyond the classroom, intellectual curiosity, and a genuine interest in Zoox’s mission. Project Overview Zoox is seeking a motivated (graduate or upper-level undergraduate) student worker to join our team, focusing on (building and validating a driving risk assessment system, an experimental RAG system for proactively testing autonomous-vehicle behavior) In this role, you will: Design, build, and iterate on an end-to-end RAG pipeline for autonomy validation, owning it from prototype to demo Define and run empirical experiments that "show it with data" rather than relying on assumptions Work through ambiguous, open-ended problems with a researcher's mindset and a bias toward rapid iteration Communicate complex results, trade-offs, and uncertainty clearly to the team and stakeholders Qualifications Currently pursuing a B.S. or M.S. in a relevant quantitative field (Engineering, CS, Physics, Neuroscience, Biology/Computational Bio, or similar) Strong programming skills in Python Solid data manipulation understanding (e.g., SQL, Pyspark, Scala) Solid foundation in machine learning and statistics Comfort operating independently under high uncertainty on open-ended problems Excellent written and ver

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 Contract Student Worker Program Zoox's contract 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 The Automated Validation & Gating Pipeline Engineer will focus on building, maintaining, and scaling robust automated validation and gating pipelines for off-board software, maps, and framework components across our autonomous driving platforms. Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain continuous automated validation and release gating pipelines for off-board mapping and cloud software components. Define and implement automated test strategies, metrics, and quality gates for component-level and framework-level validation. Triage build or pipeline failures, establish regression test suites, and collaborate with downstream teams (e.g., SIV) to streamline release readiness. Strong analytical skills with the capability to analyze large sets of data. Experience designing triage logic and processes, as well as highlighting and reporting key issues. Required Qualifications Strong software engineering background with

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 Contract Student Worker Program Zoox's contract 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 As a Data Scientist focused on forecasting, you will help Fleet Operations anticipate the resources required to scale an autonomous vehicle service across markets. You will develop forecasting and scenario-planning capabilities across fleet availability, supply, staffing, operational demand, charging, and infrastructure. Your work will inform high-impact planning decisions and create a shared, data-driven view of future operational needs. Responsibilities Develop forecasting models for fleet availability, supply hours, staffing, operational workload, charging demand, and infrastructure needs Convert spreadsheet-based planning processes into reproducible, scalable, and well-documented analytical workflows Evaluate model performance through backtesting, forecast-versus-actual reporting, and clearly defined accuracy measures Required Qualifications <li