# Senior Data Scientist at Wayve

- Company: Wayve
- What the company does: Backed by SoftBank VF and Air Street.
- Company website: https://wayve.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Sunnyvale
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $210K to $267K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://wayve.firststage.co/jobs?gh_jid=8728411002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/wayve-senior-data-scientist/

## 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

Tags: Simulation, Evaluation, Validation