Student Worker - Machine Learning Engineer - Data Mining & VLM

Responsibilities

- Develop and iterate data miners locating potential RotR Violations following SSO requirements

- Develop and iterate on VLM/LLM workflows and pipelines for classifying RotR events

- Curate golden datasets and evaluate triager precision/recall against human triage

Required Qualifications

- Extend triagers from simulation to fleet/service data

- Strong Python / Pyspark / SQL skills

- Coursework in machine learning, computer vision, or NLP. Understanding of supervised learning, model evaluation, and common sources of dataset bias and label noise.

- Analyze error cases and translate findings into pipeline improvements

- Hands-on experience building production LLM/VLM applications, including agentic workflows, RAG, tool calling, evaluation, and/or fine-tuning.

- Familiarity with software-engineering practices such as Git, unit testing, debugging, and code reviews.

Bonus Qualifications

- Strong Scala skills.

- Experience with Spark optimization and distributed data-processing systems.

- Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, mapping, or transportation-related datasets.

Program Requirements

- Experience evaluating multimodal or vision-language models.

- Currently enrolled in a B.S. or M.S. program in a relevant discipline.

- Experience with prompt optimization, model fine-tuning, or human-in-the-loop ML systems.

- Available to commit to a minimum three-month assignment.

- Able to commit a minimum of 40 hours per week.

- Able to work on-site at one of our office locations.

- Must adhere with Zoox confidentiality requirements, including refraining from using or sharing proprietary company information outside of Zoox, such as in academic research, theses, publications, or presentations.

About Zoox
Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. Sitting at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and design, Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobility-as-a-service in urban environments. We’re looking for top talent that shares our passion and wants to be part of a fast-moving and highly execution-oriented team.

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Accommodations
If you need an accommodation to participate in the application or interview process please reach out to accommodations@zoox.com or your assigned recruiter.

A Final Note:
You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. Here at Zoox, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to be successful, and we are committed to building a team that encompasses a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.