Senior Data Scientist - Hardware & Reliability
Job Summary
Job Description
Zoox is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join its Data team, focusing on hardware and reliability. The role involves partnering with AI, simulation, and mission assurance teams to enhance autonomy and service readiness. Responsibilities include validating software safety, defining key performance metrics for service and ride quality, identifying investment areas for perception, prediction, and planning teams, and establishing best practices for data-driven decision-making. The position offers access to unique datasets in the autonomous vehicle industry and contributes to Zoox's mission of providing next-generation mobility-as-a-service in urban environments.
Must have:
- Collaborate with mission assurance team
- Define key performance metrics
- Identify key investment areas
- Establish data-driven decision-making practices
- Analyze time series data
- Develop forecasting/anomaly detection models
- Communicate uncertainty to stakeholders
- Design metrics for business insights
Good to have:
- Basic fluency in C++
- Experience with geospatial data analysis
- Experience with Spark or large-scale data analysis
- Familiarity with experimentation platforms
Perks:
- Paid time off
- Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
- Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Health insurance
- Long-term care insurance
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
11 skills required
Job Details
The Data team leverages data from our autonomous vehicles and operations to determine autonomy and service readiness. We provide the foundation for strategic decision-making at Zoox. You will be responsible for partnering with our AI, simulation, and mission assurance teams to drive improvements, inform development, and identify high leverage projects on our path towards autonomy. You will play a key role in enabling Zoox to develop and scale with a data-driven environment.
You will join a diverse, experienced team with rapidly growing scope and responsibility while also having access to one of the most unique data sets in the autonomous vehicle industry.
In this role, you will:
- Collaborate with our mission assurance team to validate and ensure the safety of our software
- Define key performance metrics for our service and ride quality in order to guide product development to a commercial launch
- Identify key areas of investment for our perception, prediction, and planning teams
- Establish best practices and statistical rigor around data-driven decision-making
Qualifications
- Experience driving decision-making at various levels in an organization
- Familiarity with SQL, Python, R, or Scala
- Experience in analyzing time series data, and developing models for forecasting and/or anomaly detection
- Sound statistical inference skills, with the ability to communicate uncertainty appropriately to engineering and business stakeholders
- Experience designing metrics and building mechanisms to fuel business insights
Bonus Qualifications
- Basic fluency in C++
- Experience with geospatial data analysis
- Experience with Spark or large-scale data analysis
- Familiarity with or exposure to experimentation platforms
$192,000 - $260,000 a year
Base Salary Range
There are three major components to compensation for this position: salary, Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights. A sign-on bonus may be offered as part of the compensation package. The listed range applies only to the base salary. Compensation will vary based on geographic location and level. Leveling, as well as positioning within a level, is determined by a range of factors, including, but not limited to, a candidate's relevant years of experience, domain knowledge, and interview performance. The salary range listed in this posting is representative of the range of levels Zoox is considering for this position.
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.
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 accommodations@zoox.com 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.
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