# Senior Data Scientist - Data for Perception Machine Learning
**Company:** [Zoox](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zoox)
**Location:** Boston, MA
**Salary:** $190K-$258K
**Skills:** Python, SQL, Spark, Scala, Machine Learning, Data Visualization, Statistical Modeling, Exploratory Data Analysis, Autonomous Driving, Data Curation
**Posted:** 2026-02-24
> Senior data scientist on Perception Data team improves ML models for autonomous driving via high-quality labeled data from vision/lidar. Requires Master's/PhD, Python/SQL/Spark proficiency, stats, and data-centric ML experience.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Define and implement scalable data quality measures across complex, multimodal data labeling pipelines
- Drive data-centric ML model improvements to achieve critical Zoox milestones
- Support an org-wide data ontology and class structure for perception models
- Determine trade-offs and integrations between human-labeled, human-in-the-loop, and zero-shot autolabeled data
- Build metrics to quantify labeling throughput, capacity, and annotator/vendor quality

## Qualifications
- Master's or PhD degree in a field relevant to autonomous driving (computer science, robotics), analysis of human data (computational neuroscience, cognitive science), or related field
- Proficient using data query languages (**SQL** and/or **Spark**/**Scala**) to build complex, efficient data queries at scale and using **Python** for production-quality code
- Proficient in exploratory data analysis (**EDA**) and data visualization to understand and present trends and implications
- Background in statistical modeling and analysis; experience making data-driven decisions connecting estimates to business impact
- Experience with data-centric ML development and data curation

## Bonus Qualifications
- Experience with experiment design and statistical comparisons (**A/B testing**, parametric/non-parametric statistics)
- Experience with human data collection, including annotation task design
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