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Senior Data Scientist - Verification & Validation

Zoox· Software – Autonomy Software
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Hybrid (Foster City, CA), Hybrid (Boston, MA)$209k - $285kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior Data Scientist to join a verification and validation team that evaluates safety-critical AI systems for an autonomous vehicle platform. Hybrid, full-time role focused on designing evaluation frameworks, robust analysis, and scalable data pipelines.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Skills

Required:Statistical methodologiesPythonSQLLarge-scale data analysisGit & unit testing

Benefits

  • paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
  • unpaid time off
  • Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
  • Amazon RSUs
  • health insurance
  • long-term care insurance
  • long-term and short-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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