Data Scientist Intern [Summer 2027]

Job description preview

From Zoox’s original posting

About Our Internship Program Zoox’s internship program offers hands-on experience with cutting-edge technology, mentorship from some of the industry's brightest minds, and the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to real projects. We seek interns who demonstrate strong academic performance, engagement beyond the classroom, intellectual curiosity, and a genuine interest in Zoox's mission to create autonomous mobility from the ground up. Job Description As an intern in the Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) team within System Design & Mission Assurance, you will apply rigorous statistical methods and machine learning techniques to quantify safety and risk across our autonomous driving systems. You will work with complex, real-world fleet and simulation datasets to model rare safety events, establish statistical baselines, and develop metrics that validate the safety and mission assurance of our purpose-built robotaxi. In this Role, You Will…: • Formulate and build statistical and machine learning models to evaluate system performance and analyze rare, high-consequence safety events. • Process and analyze large-scale datasets using SQL, Python, or distributed data frameworks…