Senior Data Scientist

The role

You will own the evaluation strategy for major perception capabilities of an autonomous driving system, from start to finish. You will design metrics, datasets and statistical analyses that show how perception performance affects driving behavior and release decisions. You will also mentor other data scientists and set technical direction for the team.

What you will do

• Lead the design of metrics and evaluation frameworks for new perception capabilities.
• Drive cross-team validation projects and build consensus on metrics, datasets and release criteria.
• Develop statistical methods for uncertainty quantification and error estimation.
• Build evaluation datasets and analyze large-scale fleet and simulation data to find perception failure modes.
• Mentor and guide a small group of data scientists and raise the team's technical bar.

Required qualifications

• Master's degree with 7+ years of experience, or PhD with 3+ years of experience, in data science, applied science, or a related quantitative role.
• Expert proficiency with SQL and/or Spark (PySpark or Scala) and Python.
• Track record of building production-quality analyses and pipelines on terabyte-scale distributed data.
• Deep expertise in statistical modeling, inference and decision making, including uncertainty quantification.
• Experience designing metrics and validating ML models, such as computer vision, sensor-based or perception models.
• Demonstrated track record of leading technical projects across teams, mentoring others, and presenting to senior leadership.

Nice to have

• Experience with autonomous driving, robotics or other safety-critical systems, including verification, validation or simulation.
• Experience analyzing geospatial data and/or working with embeddings.
• Skilled at using AI tools to improve development efficiency and quality.

Benefits

• Paid time off, including sick leave, vacation and bereavement.
• Unpaid time off.
• Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights and Amazon RSUs.
• Health insurance.
• Long-term care insurance.
• Long-term and short-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance.

Before you apply

• You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply.
• Leveling and salary position depend on years of experience, domain knowledge and interview performance.

About the company

Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem to bring it to market. It works at the intersection of robotics, machine learning and design to provide mobility-as-a-service in urban environments.