# Contract Student Worker - Autonomy Safety Data Engineer at Zoox

- Company: Zoox
- What the company does: Zoox is a purpose-built autonomous vehicle designed for riders, not drivers. Learn more about the Zoox robotaxi and the future of ride-hailing. Backed by Lux.
- Company website: https://zoox.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Foster City, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-18
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/zoox/dafe2927-74bf-4bef-8df0-cb0874595819
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zoox-contract-student-worker-autonomy-safety-data-engineer/

## About the role

This role focuses on building a data-driven safety risk model that quantifies and improves autonomous-vehicle driving performance, along with the data analysis work that supports it. The student will work within the Safety Strategy & Operations team on a 6-month project spanning model development, empirical experimentation, and large-scale driving/simulation data analysis.

## What they're looking for

- Assist analyzing large-scale driving and simulation datasets to identify trends, edge cases, and opportunities to improve autonomy performance
- Currently pursuing a B.S. or M.S. in a relevant quantitative field (Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Physics, or similar)
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Help work through ambiguous, open-ended problems with a researcher’s mindset and a bias toward rapid iteration
- Solid data manipulation understanding (e.g., SQL, PySpark, Scala)
- Solid foundation in statistics, machine learning, and risk or reliability modeling

Tags: Safety Policy and Strategy