Senior Data Engineer

The Data team leverages data from our autonomous vehicles and operations to determine autonomy and service readiness. We provide the foundation for strategic decision-making at Zoox. You will develop and implement the next generation of our data pipeline to ensure visibility into our business as we scale toward the launch of an autonomous mobility service. You will define the system and build the pipeline to enable Zoox to develop and scale with a data-first culture.

You will join a diverse, experienced team with rapidly growing scope and responsibility while also having access to one of the most unique data sets in the autonomous vehicle industry. Hence, we are seeking all skill levels to grow with the team.

In this role, you will:

• Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure that transforms autonomous vehicle data at scale to support analytics throughout the company
• Define and execute on how data from perception, prediction, planning and other parts of the autonomous stack is consumed to generate valuable insights by data scientists, engineers, and business users
• Establish robust data integrity monitoring so that company-wide metrics are based on accurate data
• Partner with engineering and product teams to define data consumption patterns and establish best practices

Qualifications

• BS/MS degree in a technical field
• Experience designing and building complex data infrastructure at scale
• Advanced Structure Query Language (SQL) and data warehousing experience
• Experience operating a workflow manager such as Airflow
• Experience with large scale streaming platforms (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis), processing frameworks (e.g. Spark, Hadoop) and storage engines (e.g. HDFS, HBase)

Bonus Qualifications

• Exceptional Python or Scala skills
• Basic fluency in C++
• Familiarity with or exposure to experimentation platforms
• A strong DataOps mindset and opinions on next-generation warehousing tools