Part-Time Autonomy Validation & RAG Engineer (Student)

Zoox; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 49,000; Part time

Job summary

Zoox is seeking a motivated student worker to join the team in Foster City for a 6‑month, part‑time project focused on building and validating a driving risk assessment system and an experimental RAG system for proactive testing of autonomous‑vehicle behavior.

You will design, implement, and iterate an end‑to‑end RAG pipeline, run data‑driven experiments, tackle open problems with a researcher’s mindset, and communicate results clearly to the team. On‑site work requires 20 hours per week.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a B.S. or M.S. in Engineering, CS, Physics, Neuroscience, Biology/Computational Bio, or similar.
• Strong programming in Python; data manipulation with SQL, Pyspark, Scala.
• Solid foundation in machine learning and statistics.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Python

SQL

Pyspark

Scala

Machine learning

Statistics

Education

B.S./M.S. in Engineering/CS/Physics/Neuroscience or related

Tools

RAG systems

LLMs

Vision‑language models

Job description

Zoox is seeking a motivated student worker to join the team in Foster City for a 6‑month, part‑time project focused on building and validating a driving risk assessment system and an experimental RAG system for proactive testing of autonomous‑vehicle behavior.

You will design, implement, and iterate an end‑to‑end RAG pipeline, run data‑driven experiments, tackle open problems with a researcher’s mindset, and communicate results clearly to the team. On‑site work requires 20 hours per week.