Data Scientist - Autonomy - Zoox

Job Title: Data Scientist - Autonomy
Job Location: Foster City, CA
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/zoox/b6d67304-5f62-450c-a948-1c13fbd1334b
Job Description: 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.
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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