Software Engineer Intern, Perception Data
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Job Location:
Foster, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Zoox
Zoox is transforming mobility with fully autonomous electric vehicles designed from the ground up for a driverless future. Our mission is to make transportation safer more sustainable and accessible to everyone. At Zoox innovation collaboration and a bold vision for the future drive everything we do.
About Our Internship Program
Zooxs internship program offers hands-on experience with cutting-edge technology mentorship from some of the industrys brightest minds and the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to real projects. We seek interns who demonstrate strong academic performance engagement beyond the classroom intellectual curiosity and a genuine interest in Zooxs mission.
Project Overview
This internship opportunity is within the Perception Data team which focuses on tooling and pipelines around autonomous vehicle perception data -- specifically the systems that discover curate and deliver high-quality training data at scale.
Interns on this team will have the chance to work on Zooxs configurable data mining framework that powers large-scale extraction of labeled and unlabeled data from autonomous vehicle logs. This includes building new mining strategies (run loading sample selection and storage stages) integrating ML-driven data curation (e.g. embedding-based search vision-language model filtering) scaling pipelines across distributed compute and improving the developer experience around mining configuration and observability. Interns will gain valuable experience and insight into how targeted high-quality training data is mined from petabyte-scale autonomous driving logs to improve the perception models that enable safe self-driving.
Qualifications:
- Proficiency in Python including experience with data-oriented libraries such as pandas NumPy or PyArrow
- Experience with at least one web framework (e.g. FastAPI Flask Django) or frontend framework (e.g. Vue React Angular) with TypeScript
- Understanding of fundamental computer vision concepts (e.g. object detection image classification 2D/3D bounding boxes point clouds)
- Experience with SQL or large-scale data processing tools (e.g. Databricks PySpark or similar)
- Experience working with version control (Git) and code review workflows
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently on open-ended engineering problems
Bonus Qualifications:
- Experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow particularly for vision tasks
- Familiarity with embedding models (e.g. CLIP/OpenCLIP) or vision-language models (VLMs) for data curation or retrieval
- Experience with distributed computing or pipeline orchestration frameworks (e.g. Spark/PySpark Airflow or similar)
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure (AWS S3 Databricks)
- Familiarity with protobuf for structured data serialization
- Prior work on data mining active learning or dataset curation for ML training
- Experience with LiDAR/camera sensor data in autonomous driving or robotics contexts
Requirements:
- Currently working towards a B.S or M.S degree in a relevant engineering program
- Good academic standing
- Able to commit to a 12-week internship during one of the following summer 2026 cohorts: May 18th - August 7th OR May 26th - August 14th OR June 15th - September 4th
- At least one previous industry internship co-op or project completed in a relevant area
- Ability to relocate to the Bay Area California for the duration of the internship
- Interns at Zoox may not use any proprietary information they are working on as part of their thesis any published work withtheir university or to be distributed to anyone outside of Zoox
Required Experience:
Intern
About Company
We’re reinventing personal transportation—making the future safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable for everyone. This is on-demand autonomous ride-hailing.
