Validation Test Engineer, Test Set Curation

Zoox • Foster City, CA

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About The Position

Zoox is on an ambitious journey to develop a full-stack autonomous mobility solution for cities and safely deploy such a robotaxi solution. The System Design and Mission Assurance (SDMA) team plays a foundational role in the company's success, responsible for constructing the safety case and fail-operational design for our autonomous driving robots before public road deployment. In this role, you will generate test sets of driving logs to evaluate the performance of the autonomous driving system, validate and optimize these test sets to ensure they meet requirements and reflect the statistical distribution of our targeted robotaxi service, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements and integrate test sets with our testing frameworks. You will also develop and maintain data pipelines and tools for efficient test set creation and management, define and document best practices for the design, curation, and maintenance of large-scale test sets, and present findings and test-set characteristics to both technical and non-technical audiences to inform system development.

Requirements

• Master's Degree in Data Engineering, Data Science, Quantitative Science or a related field and at least 3 years of relevant industry experience or PhD in Data Engineering, Data Science, Quantitative Science or a related field
• Proficiency in Python for data analysis and scripting
• Experience building and curating large test sets for statistical studies or performance analysis
• Strong communication and collaboration skills for working with cross-functional teams

Nice To Haves

• Experience with PySpark
• Experience with big data platforms such as Databricks or AWS EMR
• Professional experience in the autonomous driving domain

Responsibilities

• Generate test sets of driving logs to evaluate the performance of the autonomous driving system
• Validate and optimize the test sets to ensure they meet requirements and reflect the statistical distribution of our targeted robotaxi service
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements and integrate test sets with our testing frameworks
• Develop and maintain data pipelines and tools for efficient test set creation and management
• Define and document best practices for the design, curation, and maintenance of large-scale test sets
• Present findings and test-set characteristics to both technical and non-technical audiences to inform system development

Benefits

• paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
• unpaid time off
• Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
• Amazon RSUs
• health insurance
• long-term care insurance
• long-term and short-term disability insurance
• life insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level