Data Scientist (Autonomous Driving)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States; onsite

Salary: $175,000–$215,000 USD annual base salary, plus eligibility for an annual bonus, equity incentives, and company benefits.

Company

Waymo develops autonomous driving technology and the Waymo Driver, an autonomous driving system used in ride-hailing and other vehicle platforms.

What you will do

• Develop evaluation frameworks for autonomous vehicle performance, large-scale ML models, and simulation quality.
• Create metrics, interpret trends, and investigate anomalies in simulation and on-road driving data.
• Develop statistical methods for rare-event rate estimation and for combining real and synthetic data.
• Frame ambiguous problems, derive data-driven conclusions, and communicate findings to senior stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering partners on the Waymo Driver and simulation software.
• Support deployment-readiness decisions for autonomous driving and simulation products.

Requirements

• Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, or another quantitative field.
• 3+ years of industry experience solving data science problems, or a PhD in a quantitative field.
• Expertise with advanced statistical methods in applied settings and familiarity with ML systems and models.
• Knowledge of Python, SQL, and R data analysis libraries and packages.
• Experience writing, reviewing, and merging maintainable production code.

Nice to have

• Experience with autonomous driving or ride-hailing problems.
• Experience building and validating quality metrics for complex systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a discretionary annual bonus program.
• Eligibility for an equity incentive plan.
• Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Work focused on improving autonomous driving safety, mobility access, and software quality.