Forecasting Data Scientist — Contract Student

Zoox; Foster City, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 36,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoox is seeking a Data Scientist focused on forecasting for its contract student worker program. You will help Fleet Operations anticipate resources to scale an autonomous vehicle service across markets, developing forecasting and scenario-planning for fleet availability, supply, staffing, and charging.

Collaborate with engineers and researchers to create reproducible analytical workflows and to evaluate model performance.

Qualifications

• Build scenario models to understand staffing, cost, and infrastructure implications of operational changes and market growth.
• Combine statistical methods, machine learning, and AI-enabled tools to improve forecasts and interpret outputs.
• Prototype AI-powered decision-support tools that explain forecast drivers and enable scenario planning.

Responsibilities

• Develop forecasting models for fleet availability, supply hours, staffing, workload, charging demand, and infrastructure needs.
• Convert spreadsheet-based planning into reproducible, scalable analytical workflows.
• Evaluate model performance using backtests and forecast-vs-actual analyses.

Skills

Forecasting models

Statistical modeling

Machine learning

AI tools

Communication

Explainability

Education

Master's degree pursuit

Tools

LLMs

APIs

Agent frameworks

Job description

Zoox is seeking a Data Scientist focused on forecasting for its contract student worker program. You will help Fleet Operations anticipate resources to scale an autonomous vehicle service across markets, developing forecasting and scenario-planning for fleet availability, supply, staffing, and charging.

Collaborate with engineers and researchers to create reproducible analytical workflows and to evaluate model performance.