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Contract Student Worker Automation & Behavioral Science Engineer

Zoox· Software – Software Platforms and Product
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Hybrid (Foster City, CA)$3,000/hrContractPosted 4mo ago

About the role

Part-time contract student worker role focusing on building and validating a driving risk assessment system and an experimental RAG system for proactively testing autonomous-vehicle behavior.

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

Qualifications

  • Currently pursuing a B.S. or M.S. in a relevant quantitative field (Engineering, CS, Physics, Neuroscience, Biology/Computational Bio, or similar)
  • Strong programming skills in Python
  • Solid data manipulation understanding (e.g., SQL, Pyspark, Scala)
  • Solid foundation in machine learning and statistics
  • Comfort operating independently under high uncertainty on open-ended problems
  • Excellent written and verbal communication; able to convey complexity and ambiguity clearly
  • Strong teamwork and collaboration skills

Skills

Required:PythonSQLMachine LearningCommunicationTeamwork
Nice to have:PysparkScala
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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