Contract Student Worker Automation & Behavioral Science Engineer
Job Location:
Foster, CA - USA
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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 Part Time Student Worker Program
Zooxs 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 part time student workers who demonstrate strong academic performance engagement beyond the classroom intellectual curiosity and a genuine interest in Zooxs mission.
- Design build and iterate on an end-to-end RAG pipeline for autonomy validation owning it from prototype to demo
- Define and run empirical experiments that show it with data rather than relying on assumptions
- Work through ambiguous open-ended problems with a researchers mindset and a bias toward rapid iteration
- Communicate complex results trade-offs and uncertainty clearly to the team and stakeholders
- 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; able to convey complexity and ambiguity clearly
- Strong teamwork and collaboration skills
- 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 Zooxs mission
- Currently pursuing a B.S. or M.S. in a relevant engineering field.
- 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.
$30 per hour.
This is a contract position and employment for this position will be through a vendor contracted with Zoox. The hourly pay range is posted and you will be eligible for a benefits package as offered by the vendor.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
We’re reinventing personal transportation—making the future safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable for everyone. This is on-demand autonomous ride-hailing.
