Zoox · 8 hours ago
Data Engineer Intern
Foster City, CA
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$5,500/mo - $9,500/mo
Start in 2026 SpringZoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. As a Data Engineer Intern, you will build data pipelines and infrastructure to support autonomy development and analytics, while working closely with data scientists and engineers to enable efficient access to large datasets.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous VehiclesMachine LearningRoboticsTransportation
Responsibilities
Build data pipelines and infrastructure to support autonomy development
Develop ETL pipelines for processing vehicle logs
Create data platforms for metrics computation (using Databricks, Spark, Ray)
Build visualization dashboards (Looker, Grafana, Databricks)
Work on managing run metadata and pipeline processing
Enable data scientists and engineers to efficiently access and analyze petabytes of autonomous driving data
Build and maintain the pipelines that transform data at scale to support analytics throughout the company
Design and build data models for key business domains, such as autonomy, riders and fleet, simulation, etc
Define and execute on how high value key data assets are consumed to generate valuable insights by data scientists, engineers, and business users
Qualification
Required
Currently working towards a B.S., M.S., Ph.D., or advanced degree in a relevant engineering program
Must be returning to school to continue your education upon completing this internship
Good academic standing
Able to commit to a 12-week internship beginning in May or June of 2026
At least one previous industry internship, co-op, or project completed in a relevant area
Ability to relocate to the Bay Area, California for the duration of the internship
Interns at Zoox may not use any proprietary information they are working on as part of their thesis, any published work with their university, or to be distributed to anyone outside of Zoox
Preferred
Experience with big data technologies (Spark, Databricks, Airflow)
Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
Familiarity with data warehousing and analytics platforms
Experience with streaming data processing
Understanding of ML infrastructure and feature stores
Knowledge of data quality, monitoring, and observability tools
Experience with autonomous vehicle data or sensor data processing
Experience with large scale streaming platforms (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis) and storage engines (e.g. HDFS, HBase)
Benefits
Medical insurance
A housing stipend (relocation assistance will be offered based on eligibility)
Company
Zoox
Zoox is an AI robotics company that provides mobility-as-a-service and self-driving car services. It is a sub-organization of Amazon.
Founded in 2014
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$955MKey Investors
Grok Ventures
2020-06-26Acquired
2019-10-21Convertible Note· $200M
2018-07-08Series B· $465M
Leadership Team
Nelson Pedreiro
Sr. Vice President, Hardware
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Zheng Gao
Director of Hardware Engineering
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