Perception Validation Data Scientist for Autonomous Driving

Zoox; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Stock Appreciation Rights

Amazon RSUs

Job summary

Zoox is seeking a highly skilled Data Scientist to join the Perception Verification and Validation team, focusing on the perception stack of our autonomous driving system. You will collaborate with data scientists, perception engineers, and systems engineers to develop datasets and metrics that quantify performance and enable feature impact assessment.

The role includes defining KPIs, building large datasets, analyzing results to identify failure modes, and designing statistical methods to

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field.
• Proficient using data query languages (SQL and/or Spark/scala) to build complex, scalable queries and Python production code.
• Basic experience with autonomous driving, safety-critical systems, or computer vision.
• Proficient in exploratory data analysis (EDA) and data visualization to understand trends and business impact.
• Background in statistical modeling and analysis linking data to business impact.

Responsibilities

• Define key performance metrics to measure impact on the perception stack and end-to-end system behavior.
• Create and maintain datasets used to evaluate perception and driving performance.
• Analyze large-scale metric results to identify patterns and insights on perception failure modes and present to leadership.
• Design and implement statistical methods to quantify uncertainty in performance and validation metrics.

Skills

SQL

Spark/Scala

Python

EDA

Data Visualization

Statistical Modeling

Education

Master's or PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

SQL

Spark/Scala

Python

Job description

Zoox is seeking a highly skilled Data Scientist to join the Perception Verification and Validation team, focusing on the perception stack of our autonomous driving system. You will collaborate with data scientists, perception engineers, and systems engineers to develop datasets and metrics that quantify performance and enable feature impact assessment.

The role includes defining KPIs, building large datasets, analyzing results to identify failure modes, and designing statistical methods to