Contract Student Worker

Responsibilities

• Run and maintain benchmark pipelines and analyze results for routing errors and regressions across agent variants.
• Build and expand ground-truth datasets for evaluating agent outputs against known-correct answers.
• Identify validation gaps and support development of comprehensive evaluation infrastructure before release.
• Develop evaluation dimensions for label accuracy and structured-output correctness.
• Investigate agent-output failure modes and collaborate with engineers on actionable improvements.
• Write scripts and tooling to automate data collection, result parsing, and metric reporting.
• Document findings, track benchmark trends, and present results to the team.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a B.S. or M.S. program in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Available for a minimum three-month assignment and at least 20 hours per week.
• Able to work onsite at one of the company’s office locations.
• Familiarity with Cursor or Claude and Python.
• Familiarity with precision, recall, F1 score, and confusion matrices.
• Comfort working with CSV and JSON structured data.
• Experience modifying or writing reproducible analysis scripts.
• Must comply with Zoox confidentiality requirements and not share proprietary information externally.

Benefits

• Contract position through a vendor with a compensation rate of $30/hour; benefits eligibility is determined by the vendor.
• Minimum three-month assignment with at least 20 hours per week.
• Onsite work at one of Zoox’s office locations.
• Hands-on experience contributing to real AI validation projects alongside engineers and researchers.
• This is a student worker role rather than an internship, with no structured intern programming or guaranteed full-time pathway.