Zoox

Contract Student Worker – AI Validation and Benchmarking Engineer (40hrs / week Full-Time)

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18 hours ago
Foster City, CA, USAEntry Level
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Run and maintain benchmark pipelines and analyze results for routing errors and regressions across agent variants.
  • Build and expand ground-truth datasets for evaluating agent outputs against known-correct answers.
  • Identify validation gaps and support development of comprehensive evaluation infrastructure before release.
  • Develop evaluation dimensions for label accuracy and structured-output correctness.
  • Investigate agent-output failure modes and collaborate with engineers on actionable improvements.
  • Write scripts and tooling to automate data collection, result parsing, and metric reporting.
  • Document findings, track benchmark trends, and present results to the team.

Requirements

  • Currently enrolled in a B.S. or M.S. program in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Available for a minimum three-month assignment and at least 20 hours per week.
  • Able to work onsite at one of the company’s office locations.
  • Familiarity with Cursor or Claude and Python.
  • Familiarity with precision, recall, F1 score, and confusion matrices.
  • Comfort working with CSV and JSON structured data.
  • Experience modifying or writing reproducible analysis scripts.
  • Must comply with Zoox confidentiality requirements and not share proprietary information externally.

Benefits

  • Contract position through a vendor with a compensation rate of $30/hour; benefits eligibility is determined by the vendor.
  • Minimum three-month assignment with at least 20 hours per week.
  • Onsite work at one of Zoox’s office locations.
  • Hands-on experience contributing to real AI validation projects alongside engineers and researchers.
  • This is a student worker role rather than an internship, with no structured intern programming or guaranteed full-time pathway.

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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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