Lead Analytics Engineer – Enterprise, Data & AI

Job overview

The Lead Analytics Engineer – Enterprise, Data & AI role is onsite in Foster City, CA. The posting lists a base salary range of $230,000–$315,000 per year. The role supports Zoox’s development of an autonomous vehicle fleet and mobility-as-a-service ecosystem. The engineer leads the semantic layer and data modeling strategy, turning enterprise data into reliable, performant datasets for analytics and AI-driven workflows. The role establishes modeling and quality standards, improves pipeline observability, and partners with business and engineering teams to make enterprise information useful to analytics tools and AI agents.

What you'll do

• Design and maintain a unified semantic model
• collaborate with Data & AI Engineers to optimize enterprise data for accurate, low-latency querying
• establish standards for data modeling, version control, testing, and documentation
• implement automated testing and observability frameworks
• partner with business leaders to translate operational requirements into scalable data solutions
• mentor junior engineers and drive technical projects.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

lead analytics engineer

enterprise data

artificial intelligence

semantic layer

data modeling

python

sql

foster city ca

zoox

$230k–$315k

snowflake

databricks

workday

salesforce

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Paid time off
• health insurance
• long-term care insurance
• long- and short-term disability insurance
• life insurance
• Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights and Amazon RSUs
• sign-on bonus may be offered.

Why this role

Requires 10+ years in data engineering and analytics, hands-on semantic framework experience with Python, SQL, and orchestration frameworks, and at least two years deploying AI-generated code. Bonus qualifications include LLM pipeline applications and self-service analytics tools.

About the employer

Zoox is hiring for this role. Industry: Automobile and Light Duty Motor Vehicle Manufacturing. Sector: 33.