Safety Reporting Intern [Summer 2027]

The role

You will analyze fleet safety data and benchmark autonomous vehicle safety metrics against peer standards. You will also build reporting dashboards and work with safety engineering, systems integration and fleet operations teams.

What you will do

• Analyze vehicle operational data, incident logs and autonomy performance indicators to find safety trends.
• Support benchmarking studies comparing autonomous vehicle safety performance to peer standards, regulatory expectations and internal thresholds.
• Design and maintain automated data pipelines, dashboards and reporting artifacts.
• Partner with safety engineering, systems integration and fleet operations to turn findings into safety mitigations.

Required qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Master's degree (or advanced degree) in Automotive Safety, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Data Analytics or a related technical field.
• Good academic standing and enrolled at an accredited college or university throughout the internship.
• Expected graduation between Fall 2027 and Summer 2028.
• Able to commit to a full-time, 12-week internship.
• Ability to relocate to the Bay Area, California, for the internship.
• Strong background in safety engineering principles (e.g., occupant safety, system safety, risk analysis or vehicle dynamics).
• Proficiency in quantitative data analysis and scripting (e.g., Python, SQL or R).
• Experience building visual reports and dashboards with modern BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker or Plotly/Dash).
• Solid grasp of statistical methods and ability to validate data integrity.
• Strong technical communication skills for engineering and non-engineering audiences.

Nice to have

• Prior coursework or project experience in autonomous vehicle safety frameworks (e.g., ISO 26262, SOTIF / ISO 21448).
• Experience with automotive sensor data, crash telemetry or simulation logs.
• Familiarity with mechatronics or vehicle chassis/occupant protection systems.

Benefits

• Medical insurance.
• Housing stipend.
• Relocation assistance, based on eligibility.

Before you apply

• Interns may not use proprietary information for a thesis or publication outside Zoox.
• The posting says you do not need to match every listed expectation to apply.

About the company

Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the ecosystem needed to bring it to market. It aims to provide next-generation mobility-as-a-service in urban environments.