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Contract Student Worker Automation & Behavioral Science Engineer

Foster City, CA💼 Contract🗓 2026-06-04 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building and validating a driving risk assessment system and an experimental RAG system for proactively testing autonomous-vehicle behavior.

Role type

Student worker, research & engineering IC (autonomous driving)

Builds

End-to-end RAG pipelines for autonomy validation

Domain

Autonomous vehicles, machine learning, natural language processing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Python, SQL, Pyspark, Scala, machine learning, statistics, experimental design, data manipulation

Preferred skills

RAG systems, LLMs, vision-language models (VLMs), quantitative background (Neuroscience, Physics, Computational Bio), independent research experience

Technologies

Python, SQL, Pyspark, Scala

Responsibilities

Design, build, and iterate on an end-to-end RAG pipeline for autonomy validation; Define and run empirical experiments to validate autonomous-vehicle behavior; Work through ambiguous, open-ended problems with a researcher's mindset; Communicate complex results, trade-offs, and uncertainty clearly to the team and stakeholders

Seniority

Student worker, hands-on IC

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