Contract Student Worker - Autonomy Safety Data Engineer
Hybrid (Foster City, CA / Boston, MA / Seattle, WA)$30/hrContractPosted 1mo ago
About the role
Contract student worker role focused on building a data-driven safety risk model for autonomous-vehicle driving performance, with data analysis and dataset management responsibilities, within Zoox’s Safety Strategy & Operations team on a 6-month project.
Responsibilities
- Support designing, building, and iterating on a data-driven safety risk model that quantifies driving performance and surfaces safety-relevant signals across the autonomy stack
- Assist developing and maintaining dataset management pipelines — curation, labeling, versioning, and quality checks — that feed the risk model and downstream analyses
- Support defining and running empirical experiments that “show it with data” rather than relying on assumptions
Qualifications
- Assist analyzing large-scale driving and simulation datasets to identify trends, edge cases, and opportunities to improve autonomy performance
- Currently pursuing a B.S. or M.S. in a relevant quantitative field (Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Physics, or similar)
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Help work through ambiguous, open-ended problems with a researcher’s mindset and a bias toward rapid iteration
- Solid data manipulation understanding (e.g., SQL, PySpark, Scala)
- Solid foundation in statistics, machine learning, and risk or reliability modeling
- Help communicate complex results, trade-offs, and uncertainty clearly to the team and stakeholders
- Comfort operating independently under high uncertainty on open-ended problems
Skills
Required:PythonSQLStatistics / Machine LearningCommunication
Nice to have:PySpark
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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