Data Scientist, Fleet Orchestration Algorithms

zoox

4100

Foster City, CA

Posted on: 2026-10-21

Category: emobility

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

$177,000.00 - $217,000.00

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.

The Core Data Science team builds the products and data assets that let teams across Zoox measure and improve the autonomy and operational performance of our fleet. In this role, you'll develop the algorithms that run our robotaxi fleet: matching vehicles to riders and other missions, staging vehicles where and when they're needed, routing, and pricing.

You'll also model what goes into those decisions: rider demand, the value of the data our R&D fleet collects, servicing needs, and business inputs like events and policies. You'll be the optimization generalist on the team, working alongside specialists in marketplace economics, forecasting, and autonomy, and you'll see your algorithms run on a real autonomous fleet. You’ll join a diverse, experienced team with rapidly growing scope while working with one of the industry’s most valuable autonomous vehicle datasets.

About Zoox

Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. Sitting at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and design, Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobility-as-a-service in urban environments. We’re looking for top talent that shares our passion and wants to be part of a fast-moving and highly execution-oriented team.

Accommodations

If you need an accommodation to participate in the application or interview process please reach out to [email protected] or your assigned recruiter.

A Final Note:

You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. Here at Zoox, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to be successful, and we are committed to building a team that encompasses a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

In this role, you will:

Design, prototype, and help deploy algorithms for vehicle assignment, staging, routing, and pricing
Model the inputs to orchestration (rider demand, data-collection value, servicing needs, events, and policies) as objectives and constraints
Work with specialists in marketplace economics, forecasting, and autonomy to turn their models into decisions the fleet acts on
Measure impact on revenue, utilization, and rider experience through simulation, offline evaluation, and online experiments
Contribute to how we evaluate and roll out orchestration improvements

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, plus the curiosity to work across the rest
Strong coding skills in Python, C++, or Rust; you write clean, tested, version-controlled code
Ability to turn ambiguous real-world problems into well-defined models and explain the tradeoffs to non-specialists
Good communication and collaboration skills

Bonus Qualifications

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