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Senior Data Scientist

Wayve · Sunnyvale · On-site

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About Wayve

Backed by SoftBank VF and Air Street.

About the role

As a Data Scientist supporting AI engineers, you will partner with one or more engineering teams, developing actionable insights that guide improvements to the Wayve AI Driver. Using experimental and observational analyses of real and simulated driving, you will help teams advance the functionality, safety, and performance of the Wayve AI Driver, helping to advance Wayve as the leader in end-to-end AI for autonomous mobility.

What they're looking for

  • Formulate and iterate upon the performance metrics that organize our engineering efforts and guide progress toward commercial success
  • Design experiments and targeted off-road measurements to ensure that we deliver product requirements to customers while maintaining safety and performance
  • Investigate factors in model training and inference leading to bottlenecks in functionality and performance, identifying and validating hypotheses for unlocking improvements
  • 3+ years experience working in a Data Science role
  • Fluent in querying and building large datasets, writing production-level SQL for use in data-transformation pipelines
  • Prior experience designing robust real-world experiments (e.g. A/B) and critically evaluating test-statistics
More about this role

Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.

Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.

In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.

At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.

Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!

As a Data Scientist supporting AI engineers, you will partner with one or more engineering teams, developing actionable insights that guide improvements to the Wayve AI Driver. Using experimental and observational...

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