Senior Data Scientist, Waymo

$192-243k

+ Discretionary annual bonus program & Equity incentive plan

SQL
Python
R
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

Waymo

Autonomous driving technology

Open for applications

Waymo

Autonomous driving technology

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Open for applications

$192-243k

+ Discretionary annual bonus program & Equity incentive plan

SQL
Python
R
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Company mission

To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.

Role

Who you are

  • PhD in a quantitative field (IE Statistics, Mathematics, Physics)
  • 3+ years of industry experience solving large-scale complex problems
  • Proven expertise using advanced statistical methods (e.g., ML models, hypothesis testing, causal analysis)
  • Ability to interpret and work with data in the presence of ambiguity (e.g., confounding factors, data sparsity or quality challenges)
  • Demonstrated knowledge of Python/SQL/R data analysis libraries and packages
  • Ability to take ambiguous and complex business requirements and propose a technical solution

Desirable

  • Experience solving problems related to Autonomous Driving
  • Experience in adjacent relevant areas like Advanced Machine Learning (Deep Learning and Diffusion models), Traffic Modeling, Safety Evaluation or Prediction
  • Hands-on experience with Google infra tools like PLX, Borg, GCL, etc

What the job involves

  • Examples of areas the data science team is involved in include safety readiness evaluation, development of signals to characterize good driving, evaluation of ML models in production systems, and simulation technology (virtual driving)
  • In this hybrid role, you will report to the Manager of Data Science
  • Develop evaluation frameworks for both autonomous vehicle performance and the evaluation frameworks themselves ("eval of eval")
  • Develop statistical methods and ML models to analyze historical/simulation data
  • Frame and solve ambiguous problems and communicate the results
  • Develop new metrics, interpret trends, and investigate anomalies in data from simulation and our rider-only service and share findings with leadership
  • Be an advisor and influence collaborators across multiple teams
  • Mentor other data scientists, either formally (as a tech lead) or less formally (as an individual contributor)

Our take

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that began as the Google self-driving car project in 2009. After initial development, it secured permits to deploy autonomous ride-hailing services in cities including Phoenix and San Francisco, but has recently hit a major bump in the road with safety concerns that resulted in a recall of over 400 self-driving cars.

With the autonomous driving industry already besieged by setbacks and public distrust, this development does Waymo no favours. That said, as an industry leader there remains the possibility it will see out the storm, but massive attention will need to be given to rebuilding trust with consumers if this is to be the case.

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Insights

Led by a woman
Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-1% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jun 2021

$2.5bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

May 2020

$750m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $5.5bn

Company values

  • Our customers are at the heart of everything we do
  • Safety is our foundation
  • We pioneer
  • Act with thoughtful urgency
  • Respect each other
  • Be responsible owners
  • We’re stronger together
  • Optionality creates opportunities
  • Always be learning
  • Celebrate progress

Company HQ

Mountain View, CA

Leadership

Dmitri Dolgov

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Former CTO of the company. After a PhD at the University of Michigan, they worked as a Stanford Postdoctoral Researcher before moving to the Toyota Research Institute. They also spent 8 years at Google as a Software Engineer.

Tekedra N. Mawakana

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Has worked at Waymo since 2017, as Global Head of Policy then CXO then COO before becoming Co-CEO. They are on the Board of Advisors at Operator Collective, Board of Directors at Intuit, and an Advisor for Boom Supersonic.

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