ZooxContract Student Worker – AI Validation and Benchmarking Engineer (40hrs / week Full-Time)
Zoox is hiring a Contract Student Worker – AI Validation and Benchmarking Engineer (40hrs / week Full-Time) in Foster City, United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
AI in this role
Support the validation pipeline for AI tools by maintaining datasets, running benchmarks, and measuring agent accuracy.
Zoox is an autonomous ride-hailing company building the world's first purpose-built robotaxi — fully electric, bidirectional, with no steering wheel or driver's seat. Backed by Amazon and founded to make transportation safer, cleaner, and more accessible, Zoox designs its vehicles entirely around the rider. We're currently operating in Las Vegas and San Francisco, with Austin and Miami on the horizon, and testing underway across seven U.S. markets.
About Our Part-Time Student Worker Program
Zoox's part-time student worker program puts you at the center of one of the most ambitious challenges in transportation. You'll contribute to real projects, work alongside engineers and researchers pushing the boundaries of autonomous technology, and gain experience that goes well beyond the classroom. We're looking for students who bring strong academic foundations, curiosity that doesn't stop at coursework, and a drive to be part of something that matters. Role Overview This role requires supporting the end-to-end validation pipeline for AI tools: maintaining test datasets, running benchmarks, and measuring agent accuracy across routing decisions, classification labels, and structured output fields.
How we rate this
Contract Student Worker – AI Validation and Benchmarking Engineer (40hrs / week Full-Time) at Zoox rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.
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Skills and AI tools this role asks for
Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where ai validation was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where benchmarking was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where dataset maintenance was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where routing evaluation was part of your work. What did you do?
- Describe a typical day in a role like this one: which parts run through AI directly?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: AI Validation, Benchmarking, Dataset Maintenance, and Routing Evaluation. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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