Staff Data Scientist, Driving Quality

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

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