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Senior Software Engineer - Core Data Science - Zoox

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Job Title
Senior Software Engineer - Core Data Science
Job Location
Foster City, CA
Job Description
The Core Data Science team owns a suite of products that provide actionable insights to the on-vehicle software teams. In particular, our scenario search tools are used by teams developing and validating Zoox’s on-vehicle AI stack to estimate and analyze event rates at scale, enabling the launch of an autonomous mobility service. Our team also works closely with dedicated Data Science teams to develop key driving behavior metrics and direct new feature development, using large scale data from our autonomous driving fleet and simulations.

You are a good fit for our team if you are a software engineer with a propensity for big data analysis, or a data engineer / scientist with an understanding of and enthusiasm for sound software engineering practices. You will join a diverse, experienced team with rapidly growing scope and responsibility while also having access to a uniquely valuable data set in the autonomous vehicle industry.
In this role, you will:
  • Collaborate with our software and systems engineering teams to build and support core scenario search capabilities for Zoox
  • Work alongside our data engineering and data science teams to develop and use robust large scale data solutions
  • Identify key areas of investment for our vehicle software teams
  • Establish best practices and processes around data-driven decision-making
  • Qualifications
  • Extensive experience with large-scale data processing frameworks, with preference for Spark or Hadoop
  • Software development experience in a production environment, with preference for Scala, Python, or Java; or demonstrated experience learning new programming languages
  • Familiarity with any version control system, with preference for Git
  • Experience designing metrics and building mechanisms that deliver robust, actionable insights
  • Good communication and collaboration skills
  • Bonus Qualifications
  • Experience training and deploying ML models to large scale production use cases
  • Basic familiarity with C++
  • Experience with geospatial data analysis
  • Familiarity with or exposure to experimentation platforms
  • Basic familiarity with any autonomous vehicle competency, e.g. perception, localization, prediction, planning, or controls
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    Zoox Headquarters Location

    Foster City, CA

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    Zoox Company Size

    Between 2,000 - 5,000 employees

    Zoox Founded Year

    2014

    Zoox Total Amount Raised

    $1,005,000,000

    Zoox Funding Rounds

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    • Convertible Note

      $200,000,000 USD

    • Series B

      $465,000,000 USD

    • Series A

      $50,000,000 USD

    • Series A

      $250,000,000 USD

    • Seed

      $40,000,000 USD