Contract Student Worker Automation & Behavioral Science Engineer

The role

You will build and test an experimental RAG system that proactively tests autonomous-vehicle behavior, owning it from prototype to demo. You will run experiments with data and communicate results and trade-offs to the team.

What you will do

• Design, build, and iterate on an end-to-end RAG pipeline for autonomy validation, from prototype to demo
• Define and run empirical experiments that show results with data
• Work through ambiguous, open-ended problems with rapid iteration
• Communicate complex results, trade-offs, and uncertainty to the team and stakeholders

Required qualifications

• Currently pursuing a B.S. or M.S. in a relevant quantitative field (Engineering, CS, Physics, Neuroscience, Biology/Computational Bio, or similar)
• Strong programming skills in Python
• Solid data manipulation understanding (e.g., SQL, Pyspark, Scala)
• Solid foundation in machine learning and statistics
• Comfort operating independently under high uncertainty on open-ended problems
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills
• Available for a 6 month project
• Able to commit to at least 20 hours per week
• Ability to commute on-site to Foster City
• Student worker may not use proprietary Zoox information in university theses, publications, or share it outside

Nice to have

• Experience with RAG systems, LLMs, or vision-language models (VLMs)
• Background in a quantitative discipline (Neuroscience, Physics, Computational Bio, etc.)
• Prior research experience taking ambiguous, end-to-end problems from zero to a result, independently
• Genuine interest in autonomous vehicles and Zoox's mission

Benefits

• Hands-on experience with cutting-edge technology
• Mentorship from industry experts
• Opportunity to contribute to real projects
• Eligibility for a benefits package as offered by the contracted vendor

Before you apply

• Employment is through a vendor contracted with Zoox
• You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply

About the company

Zoox is developing a ground-up, fully autonomous electric vehicle fleet and the ecosystem to bring it to market. The company works at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and design.