Data Scientist, Fleet Orchestration Algorithms

The role

You will build and maintain fleet simulation tools that data teams use to develop and test algorithms for dispatch, routing and vehicle assignment for an autonomous vehicle fleet. You will design and help deploy algorithms for vehicle assignment, staging, routing and pricing, and measure their impact on revenue, utilization and rider experience.

What you will do

• Design, prototype and help deploy algorithms for vehicle assignment, staging, routing and pricing
• Model orchestration inputs such as rider demand, data-collection value, servicing needs, events and policies as objectives and constraints
• Work with marketplace economics, forecasting and autonomy specialists to turn their models into fleet decisions
• Measure impact on revenue, utilization and rider experience through simulation, offline evaluation and online experiments
• Contribute to how orchestration improvements are evaluated and rolled out
• Build a coherent, easy-to-use fleet simulation environment and generalizable mechanisms for measuring algorithm impact

Required qualifications

• PhD or MS with 2+ years of relevant industry or research experience, in operations research, robotics, controls, transportation, computer science, applied math or a related field
• Deep expertise in at least one of: combinatorial/integer optimization, stochastic optimization or control, reinforcement learning/approximate DP, network flows, or marketplace/demand modeling
• Curiosity to work across the other listed areas
• Strong coding skills in Python, C++ or Rust; writes clean, tested, version-controlled code
• Ability to turn ambiguous real-world problems into well-defined models and explain tradeoffs to non-specialists
• Good communication and collaboration skills

Nice to have

• Internship or research experience in ride-hailing, delivery, logistics or AV fleets (dispatch, routing, rebalancing, pricing)
• Algorithms deployed in production or used on real operational data
• Publications in operations research, transportation or robotics venues

Before you apply

• Accommodations are available for the application or interview process; contact accommodations@zoox.com or your assigned recruiter

About the company

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