Staff Data Scientist, Safety Evaluation
Staff Data Scientist, Safety Evaluation
Staff Data Scientist, Safety Evaluation
Waymo
Waymo, an autonomous driving technology company, seeks a Staff Data Scientist for its Safety Evaluation team. This role focuses on ensuring the safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles through data analysis, model development, and collaboration with engineering teams. The position emphasizes the development of safety evaluation frameworks and innovative ML techniques for collision evaluation.
Qualification
- PhD in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Mathematics, Physics).
- 7+ 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).
- Experience in developing and validating machine learning models.
Responsibility
- Develop safety evaluation frameworks critical to ML model improvements.
- Design and implement robust data analysis pipelines and validation frameworks.
- Develop and apply statistical methods and ML models to analyze historical/simulation data and assess safety performance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams like Simulation and Planning for comprehensive safety evaluation across the autonomous driving system.
