Zoox

Student Worker - Machine Learning Engineer - Data Mining & VLM

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2 months ago
Foster City, CA, USAEntry Level
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Responsibilities

  • Develop and iterate data miners that locate potential RotR violations while following SSO requirements.
  • Develop and iterate VLM/LLM workflows and pipelines for classifying RotR events.
  • Extend triagers from simulation data to fleet and service data.
  • Curate golden datasets and evaluate triager precision and recall against human triage.
  • Analyze error cases and translate findings into pipeline improvements.

Requirements

  • Strong Python, PySpark, and SQL skills.
  • Coursework in machine learning, computer vision, or NLP, with understanding of supervised learning, model evaluation, dataset bias, and label noise.
  • Hands-on experience building production LLM/VLM applications, including agentic workflows, RAG, tool calling, evaluation, or fine-tuning.
  • Experience evaluating multimodal or vision-language models.
  • Currently enrolled in a relevant B.S. or M.S. program.
  • Experience with prompt optimization, model fine-tuning, or human-in-the-loop ML systems.
  • Familiarity with Git, unit testing, debugging, and code reviews.
  • Strong Scala skills are a bonus.
  • Experience with Spark optimization, distributed data-processing systems, autonomous vehicles, robotics, mapping, or transportation-related datasets is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Minimum three-month assignment
  • Minimum commitment of 40 hours per week
  • On-site work at one of Zoox's office locations
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About Zoox

1,001-5,000 employees

Zoox builds a fully autonomous, purpose-built electric vehicle and the end-to-end platform to operate it as an urban robotaxi service. The company designs the vehicle, self-driving software, and fleet operations in-house to offer mobility-as-a-service rather than selling cars. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Zoox is a subsidiary of Amazon.

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