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Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
Foster CityCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Aug 7, 2026
Contract

Contract Student Worker - Machine Learning Engineer - Data Mining & VLM (Full-time)

Job description

Zoox's part-time student worker program puts you at the center of one of the most ambitious challenges in transportation. You'll contribute to real projects, work alongside engineers and researchers pushing the boundaries of autonomous technology, and gain experience that goes well beyond the classroom. We're looking for students who bring strong academic foundations, curiosity that doesn't stop at coursework, and a drive to be part of something that matters.

Support Zoox's Rules of the Road (RotR) program, where a miner + LLM/VLM tooling method automatically mines and triages potential road-rule violation events from simulation and fleet data.

Zoox is an autonomous ridehailing company…

Job responsibilities

  • Develop and iterate data miners locating potential RotR Violations following SSO requirements
  • Develop and iterate on VLM/LLM workflows and pipelines for classifying RotR events
  • Curate golden datasets and evaluate triager precision/recall against human triage

Job requirements

  • Extend triagers from simulation to fleet/service data
  • Strong Python / Pyspark / SQL skills
  • Coursework in machine learning, computer vision, or NLP. Understanding of supervised learning, model evaluation, and common sources of dataset bias and label noise.
  • Analyze error cases and translate findings into pipeline improvements
  • Hands-on experience building production LLM/VLM applications, including agentic workflows, RAG, tool calling, evaluation, and/or fine-tuning.
  • Familiarity with software-engineering practices such as Git, unit testing, debugging, and code reviews.
  • Strong Scala skills.
  • Experience with Spark optimization and distributed data-processing systems.
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