The board
- Hours
- Contract
- Where
- Foster City, CA
- Posted
- 4 days ago
This role focuses on building a data-driven safety risk model that quantifies and improves autonomous-vehicle driving performance, along with the data analysis work that supports it. The student will work within the Safety Strategy & Operations team on a 6-month project spanning model development, empirical experimentation, and large-scale driving/simulation data analysis.
What you'd do
- 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
What they want
- 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
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to convey complexity and ambiguity clearly
- Experience with safety, reliability, or risk modeling (e.g., survival analysis, Bayesian methods, causal inference)
About Zoox · Zoox Internships
Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. Sitting at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and design, Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobility-as-a-service in urban environments.