Senior Data Scientist - Hardware & Reliability

About the position

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• Experience driving decision-making at various levels in an organization
• Familiarity with SQL, Python, R, or Scala
• 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

Nice-to-haves

• Basic fluency in C++
• Experience with geospatial data analysis
• Experience with Spark or large-scale data analysis
• Familiarity with or exposure to experimentation platforms

Benefits

• 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
• Life insurance