Staff Data Scientist

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WaymoMountain View, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USAfull-timestaff

$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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