Data Scientist - Autonomy

Zoox

2600

Foster City, CA, United States

Posted on: 2025-06-16

Category: emobility

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Zoox is transforming mobility-as-a-service by developing a fully autonomous, purpose-built fleet designed for AI to drive and humans to enjoy.

As an Autonomy Data Scientist, you analyze how the self-driving system performs across a wide range of real-world scenarios. Your work focuses on understanding disengagements, success rates, and other key metrics to assess system behavior, diagnose issues, and track progress over time.

These insights are critical for guiding engineering decisions and operational strategy. By delivering clear, data-driven evaluations of autonomy performance, you help Zoox prioritize improvements, measure readiness, and accelerate safe and scalable deployment.

Compensation

There are three major components to compensation for this position: salary, Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights. The salary will range from $169,000 to $203,000. A sign-on bonus may be part of a compensation package. Compensation will vary based on geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Zoox also offers a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement), unpaid time off, Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights, Amazon RSUs, health insurance, long-term care insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, and life insurance.

In this role, you will

Analyze autonomy performance metrics such as disengagements, success rates, and scenario outcomes to assess system readiness

Identify trends, anomalies, and failure modes using large-scale driving data

Translate data insights into actionable recommendations that guide engineering priorities and improve system behavior

Partner closely with autonomy, safety, and operations teams to align on success criteria and validate improvements

Help shape Zoox’s strategy for safe and scalable deployment by ensuring autonomy decisions are grounded in rigorous analysis

Qualifications

Experience driving decision-making at various levels in an organization

Familiarity with SQL, Python, R, or Scala

Proven ability to define metrics and build scalable analysis pipelines to evaluate complex systems

Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical findings into actionable insights

Bonus Qualifications

Experience with geospatial data analysis

Experience with Spark or large-scale data analysis

Familiarity with or exposure to experimentation platforms

Experience working with autonomous vehicles, robotics, or transportation systems

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