Autonomous Driving Data Scientist: Evaluation & Metrics

Socket.dev; Mountain View, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity incentives

Benefits program

Job summary

Waymo is seeking experienced data-minded software engineers and data scientists to improve evaluation of the Onboard software stack, including Planner and Perception. You will develop evaluation frameworks, create new metrics, and collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to advance the Waymo Driver and simulation software.

Join a team measuring and improving AV software quality, framing ambiguous problems, and communicating findings to senior stakeholders in a data-driven culture.

Qualifications

• Degree in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Mathematics, Physics).
• 3+ years of industry experience solving data science problems or a PhD in a quantitative field.
• Expertise using advanced statistical methods in an applied setting; familiarity with ML systems/models.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Python/SQL/R data analysis libraries and packages
• Writing, reviewing, and merging code following industry standards for code health and maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Develop evaluation frameworks for autonomous vehicle performance, for large-scale ML models, and for the quality of simulation.
• Develop new metrics, interpret trends, and investigate anomalies in data from simulation and on-road driving.
• Develop novel statistical methods to handle unique aspects of AV data; e.g. rate estimation with rare events, combining real and synthetic data, etc.
• Frame and solve ambiguous problems, derive data-driven conclusions, and communicate findings to senior stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering partners developing the Waymo Driver and Waymo’s simulation software; facilitate deployment readiness decisions for both products.

Skills

Statistics

Python

SQL

R

ML systems

Education

PhD in a quantitative field

Degree in a quantitative field

Job description

Waymo is seeking experienced data-minded software engineers and data scientists to improve evaluation of the Onboard software stack, including Planner and Perception. You will develop evaluation frameworks, create new metrics, and collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to advance the Waymo Driver and simulation software.

Join a team measuring and improving AV software quality, framing ambiguous problems, and communicating findings to senior stakeholders in a data-driven culture.