Contract Student Worker - Machine Learning Engineer - Data Mining & VLM (Full-time)
Zoox · Data Science
- Location
- Foster City, CA
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Level
- Unspecified
- Type
- Contract
- Posted
- 3 months ago
- Source
- Lever
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What the posting covers
About Zoox
Zoox is an autonomous ridehailing company building the world's first purpose-built robotaxi — fully electric, bidirectional, with no steering wheel or driver's seat. Backed by Amazon and founded to make transportation safer, cleaner, and more accessible, Zoox…
About Our Part-Time Student Worker Program
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…
Role Overview
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. The student will be helping create or improve the data miners that…
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
Required Qualifications
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.…
Program Requirements
Experience evaluating multimodal or vision-language models. Currently enrolled in a B.S. or M.S. program in a relevant discipline. Experience with prompt optimization, model fine-tuning, or human-in-the-loop ML systems. Available to commit to a minimum…
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…
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