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Senior Data Scientist - Verification & Validation

Zoox·📍 Foster City, California, United States

Employment

FULL TIME

Work mode

Hybrid

Experience

SENIOR LEVEL

Salary

$209K – $285K/yr

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This job's pay ($247,000 a year at the midpoint) is higher than about 80% of 328 salary-listed Data Scientist jobs in United States in the last 12 months; their median is $196,285.

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Job description

Zoox is on an ambitious journey to develop a full-stack autonomous vehicle system for cities. We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join a verification and validation team that evaluates safety-critical AI systems. You will join a team of software and data engineers that leverage methods including log data analysis, simulation, and closed-course structured testing. You'll work cross-functionally with AI software, System Design and Mission Assurance, Simulation, Sensors, and other teams to develop, execute, and iterate on validation methods and pipelines. These pipelines evaluate safety-critical systems, are highly visible, and are an important critical path element of launching our service. The ideal candidate brings a hybrid of statistical rigor and engineering mindset to drive clarity from ambiguity, establish new processes, and propel the team forward. This is a deeply technical and hands-on role where you will be expected to be a self-sufficient builder and coder, not just a manager of projects. In this role, you will:
  • Design Evaluation Frameworks: Architect statistical methodologies for safety-critical AI systems to form objective, rigorous conclusions about their performance and reliability.

  • Conduct Robust Analysis: Deliver validation evidence to support increasingly complex operations and identify potential edge-case failures.

  • Inform Strategy: Deliver clear, data-driven insights to development teams to guide system improvement, and to executive leadership to inform milestone-level go/no-go decisions.

  • Define Metrics: Drive alignment across engineering teams on performance metrics and data extraction strategies.

  • Lead the Lifecycle: Manage all phases of evaluation including prototyping, requirements capture, design, implementation, and validation.

  • Scale Pipelines: Partner with engineers to build and maintain scalable data processing and simulation pipelines, applying distributed computing to analyze petabytes of driving data.


  • Qualifications:
  • MS or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, or related quantitative field
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL with experience in production-quality code
  • Demonstrated expertise in statistical methodologies including hypothesis testing, power analysis, spatiotemporal modeling, Bayesian inference, and multivariate analysis.
  • Experience with large-scale data analysis and statistical modeling
  • Proficiency with Git, unit testing, and collaborative development practices
  • Bonus Qualifications:
  • Hands-on experience with production machine learning pipelines: dataset creation, training frameworks, metrics pipelines

  • Experience with modern data processing technologies such as Apache Spark, Spark SQL, and Databricks

  • Experience with designing metrics and delivering actionable insights that drive business decisions

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    About this listing

    • Source: Zoox's official careers site · still listed there on 8 Nov 2026
    • Posted 27 Mar 2026

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    MS or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, or related quantitative field

    Department · Software

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    Zoox

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    Zoox is a purpose-built autonomous vehicle designed for riders, not drivers. Learn more about the Zoox robotaxi and the future of ride-hailing.

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