Senior Software Engineer - Autonomy Safety Metric
About The Position
Zoox is seeking a highly skilled and experienced engineer to join its Behavior Evaluation team and help measure the safety of its autonomous driving technology. The team quantifies how often the autonomy stack causes the vehicle to stop unexpectedly and how that relates to collision risk. The engineer will own and scale the pipeline behind these estimates, advancing ML model scoring, sampling, and projections while making the system faster, more reliable, and easier to audit. The role involves close collaboration with engineers, researchers, and cross-functional stakeholders as Zoox expands to additional cities and software releases.
Requirements
- 7–9 years of experience, or 5+ years with a strong data-platform track record.
- Expert Python skills, with production experience in PySpark/Spark and Pandas.
- Experience designing scalable batch data pipelines, including orchestration, Delta/lakehouse tables, and idempotent backfills.
- Strong grounding in applied statistics, including sampling, weighting, estimators, and confidence intervals.
- Strong testing and CI habits for data code.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with autonomous-vehicle simulation, safety metrics, or triage workflows.
- Experience putting ML models into production in a data pipeline.
- Experience with Databricks and AWS, including EMR Serverless and S3.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain Behavior Evaluation data pipelines using PySpark/zspark medallion architecture on Databricks, EMR Serverless, and Airflow to produce weekly per-geofence estimates.
- Translate statistical methods—including sampling, triage weights, mileage sharing, and projections—into tested, reproducible code, with checks that clearly flag bad data.
- Build tools that reduce the manual work required for each weekly run.
- Work with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the methodology is applied consistently in code and clearance reports.
- Adapt the pipeline and methodology to new release methodologies and geofences.
Benefits
- Paid time off, including sick leave, vacation, and bereavement.
- Unpaid time off.
- Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights.
- Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
- Health insurance.
- Long-term care insurance.
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance.
- Life insurance.
- A sign-on bonus may be offered.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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