Senior Data Scientist (Perception Machine Learning)

TL;DR

Senior Data Scientist (Perception ML): Responsible for defining and implementing scalable data quality measures across complex, multimodal data labeling pipelines and driving data-centric ML model improvements to achieve critical hirify.global milestones. Focus on supporting org-wide data ontology, determining trade-offs between various labeling methods, and building metrics to quantify labeling efficiency and quality.

Location: Hybrid, working from Boston, MA or Foster City, CA

Salary: $190,000–$258,000 a year

Company

hirify.global is an autonomous driving product company focusing on AI-powered perception ML models for self-driving vehicles.

What you will do

• Define and implement scalable data quality measures across complex, multimodal data labeling pipelines.
• Drive data-centric ML model improvements to achieve critical hirify.global milestones.
• Support an org-wide data ontology and class structure for perception models.
• Determine trade-offs and integrations between human-labeled, human-in-the-loop, and zero-shot autolabeled data.
• Build metrics to quantify labeling throughput, capacity, and annotator/vendor quality.

Requirements

• Master's or PhD degree in a field relevant to autonomous driving (computer science, robotics) or the analysis of human data (computational neuroscience, cognitive science).
• Proficient using data query languages (SQL and/or Spark/Scala) to build complex yet efficient data queries at scale.
• Proficient in Python to build production-quality code.
• Proficient in exploratory data analysis (EDA) and data visualization to understand and present trends.
• Background in statistical modeling and analysis, including making data-driven decisions.
• Experience with data-centric ML development and data curation.

Nice to have

• Experience with experiment design and statistical comparisons (A/B testing, parametric/non-parametric statistics).
• Experience with human data collection, including annotation task design.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off (sick leave, vacation, bereavement), unpaid time off, hirify.global Stock Appreciation Rights, and Amazon RSUs.
• Health insurance, long-term care insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, and life insurance.
• AI tools may be used to support parts of the hiring process, but human judgment makes final hiring decisions.