Autonomy Safety Data Engineer – Part-Time Student

JobCubby; Foster City (CA); Hybrid; USD 34,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoox's part-time student worker program places 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 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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Solid data manipulation understanding (SQL, PySpark, Scala).
• Solid foundation in statistics, machine learning, and risk or reliability modeling.
• Able to communicate complex results and uncertainties clearly to the team and stakeholders.

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.

Skills

Data analysis

Python

Data manipulation

Communication

Statistics

MLE modeling

Ambiguity tolerance

Education

B.S./M.S. in Engineering, CS, Statistics, Physics

Tools

SQL

PySpark

Scala

Job description

Zoox's part-time student worker program places 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 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.