Staff Data Scientist, Driving Quality
Posted
$238,000 USD
Tech Stack
Responsibilities
- Lead a roadmap to develop methodologies and Key Performance Indicators to measure the quality, cost efficiency, and business relevance for various behavior evaluation solutions.
- Directly influence the portfolio of evaluation signals relied on by hundreds of software engineers to ensure their changes in the Waymo Driver are having positive intended impacts.
- Conduct deep dive analysis to understand performance bottlenecks in current evaluation methodologies, propose and prototype improvements in metrics, sampling strategy, statistical inference, etc.
- Become an expert in Waymo’s evaluation ecosystem for onboard software, understand how evaluation signals affect Waymo’s launch decisions, and provide actionable insights for designing launch criteria.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to build solutions for assessing Waymo’s evaluation portfolio at scale and accelerate the development for new evaluation.
Benefits
- Equity
- Learning Budget
- Remote Work
Culture
Pay Transparency
Requirements
Required: Degree in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Mathematics, Physics)
Preferred: PhD in a quantitative field
Regions: Us
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About Waymo
Industry: autonomous driving
Size: enterprise
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver, having built the Waymo Driver to power fully autonomous ride-hail services and various vehicle platforms.
View company profile →Compensation
Base salary: $238,000 USD
Equity: equity incentive plan
Bonus: discretionary annual bonus program