# Staff Data Scientist - Verification & Validation

**Company:** [Zoox](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zoox)
**Location:** Foster City, CA, Boston, MA
**Role:** Data Science
**Salary:** $256k – $307k/yr
**Skills:** Python, SQL, Git, Bayesian Inference, Hypothesis Testing, Spark, Spark Sql, Databricks, Spatiotemporal Modeling, Multivariate Analysis
**Posted:** 2026-03-27

> Staff Data Scientist designs statistical frameworks and conducts robust analysis to validate safety-critical AI systems for autonomous vehicles. Delivers data-driven insights to engineering teams and leadership, scaling pipelines for petabyte-scale driving data analysis. Requires MS/PhD in quantitative field and expertise in Python, SQL, and statistical methods.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Design evaluation frameworks: Architect statistical methodologies for safety-critical AI systems to form objective, rigorous conclusions about their performance and reliability.
- Conduct robust analysis: Deliver validation evidence to support increasingly complex operations and identify potential edge-case failures.
- Inform strategy: Deliver clear, data-driven insights to development teams to guide system improvement, and to executive leadership to inform milestone-level go/no-go decisions.
- Define metrics: Drive alignment across engineering teams on performance metrics and data extraction strategies.
- Lead the lifecycle: Manage all phases of evaluation including prototyping, requirements capture, design, implementation, and validation.
- Scale pipelines: Partner with engineers to build and maintain scalable data processing and simulation pipelines, applying distributed computing to analyze petabytes of driving data.

## Qualifications

- MS or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, or related quantitative field
- Proficiency in **Python** and **SQL** with experience in production-quality code
- Demonstrated expertise in statistical methodologies including hypothesis testing, power analysis, spatiotemporal modeling, **Bayesian inference**, and multivariate analysis
- Experience with large-scale data analysis and statistical modeling
- Proficiency with **Git**, unit testing, and collaborative development practices

## Bonus Qualifications

- Hands-on experience with production machine learning pipelines: dataset creation, training frameworks, metrics pipelines
- Experience with modern data processing technologies such as **Apache Spark**, **Spark SQL**, and **Databricks**
- Experience with designing metrics and delivering actionable insights that drive business decisions

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