Applied Data Scientist, Autonomous Driving Analytics

OpenDigital Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve in London is seeking a Data Scientist to partner with AI engineers, developing actionable insights to improve the Wayve AI Driver. You will analyse real and simulated driving data to enhance functionality, safety and performance, supporting the company’s lead position in end-to-end AI for autonomous mobility.

Responsibilities include formulating performance metrics for engineering progress, designing off-road experiments to meet product requirements, and investigating training and

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience working in a Data Science role.
• Fluent in querying and building large datasets, writing prod-level SQL.
• Experience designing robust real-world experiments (e.g. A/B).
• Foundations in statistics: distributions and frequentist assumptions.
• Proficient in Python (pandas, sklearn, statsmodels, scipy) or R (dplyr, caret, stats).
• Able to summarise, visualise and communicate findings clearly.
• Track record of influencing team direction.
• Bias towards deriving actionable insights for prioritisation.
• Comfortable working asynchronously across time zones.
• Curious about building something new and AV2.0.

Responsibilities

• Formulate and iterate performance metrics that guide engineering progress.
• Design experiments and off-road measurements to meet product requirements.
• Investigate factors in model training and inference to unlock improvements.

Skills

SQL

Experiment design

Statistics basics

Python data science

Data visualization

Influence findings

Cross-team collaboration

Curiosity/initiative

Tools

PyTorch

Spark

Hadoop

Job description

Wayve in London is seeking a Data Scientist to partner with AI engineers, developing actionable insights to improve the Wayve AI Driver. You will analyse real and simulated driving data to enhance functionality, safety and performance, supporting the company’s lead position in end-to-end AI for autonomous mobility.

Responsibilities include formulating performance metrics for engineering progress, designing off-road experiments to meet product requirements, and investigating training and