AI Driving Data Scientist – Hybrid Analytics

Wayve; London (KY); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Wayve is seeking a Data Scientist to partner with AI engineers, developing insights from real and simulated driving to improve the Wayve AI Driver and guide product enhancements.

You will design experiments, define performance metrics, and help translate findings into actionable improvements for safety and performance. The role requires collaboration across time zones in a fast-moving tech environment with a hybrid London office.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in a Data Science role.
• Fluent in querying and building large datasets, writing production-level SQL for data pipelines.
• Prior experience designing robust real-world experiments (e.g. A/B) and critically evaluating test-statistics
• Foundations in the fundamentals behind statistics: testing distributions and assumptions behind frequentist stats
• Proficient in a statistical scripting language and data science/ML packages (e.g. Python with pandas, sklearn, statsmodels, scipy or R with dplyr, caret, stats)
• Well-versed in summarising, visualising and communicating findings clearly
• Track record of influencing team direction through findings
• Bias towards deriving actionable insight for prioritisation and strategy
• Comfortable working asynchronously across time zones
• Curious about building AV2.0 and how we build it

Responsibilities

• Partner with AI engineering teams to develop actionable insights guiding improvements to the Wayve AI Driver.
• Design experiments and targeted measurements to ensure product requirements prioritize safety and performance.
• Investigate factors in model training and inference leading to bottlenecks and validate hypotheses for improvements.

Skills

SQL

Experiment design

Statistics fundamentals

Data communication

Cross-functional influence

Time-zone collaboration

Curiosity for AV2.0

Tools

Python

Pandas

Scikit-learn

R

Spark

Hadoop

PyTorch

Job description

Wayve is seeking a Data Scientist to partner with AI engineers, developing insights from real and simulated driving to improve the Wayve AI Driver and guide product enhancements.

You will design experiments, define performance metrics, and help translate findings into actionable improvements for safety and performance. The role requires collaboration across time zones in a fast-moving tech environment with a hybrid London office.