NVIDIA
Senior Data Scientist, Data Quality and AI Evaluation
$224K–$431K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years of industry experience.
- Education
- Bachelor degree or proven track record for Master in statistics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent experience in practice.
About the job
Develops evaluation and data-quality systems for autonomous-driving auto-labeling pipelines, using verified datasets, statistical audits, and failure analysis to guide improvements.
What you'll do
- Define quality metrics, maintain human-verified datasets, and analyze sensor, camera, and annotation data for systematic errors.
- Develop failure-clustering and data-selection approaches; design audits, experiments, and release acceptance criteria.
- Improve labeling guidelines and reviewer consistency, and communicate findings through dashboards and recommendations.
What they ask for
- Foundations in statistics, experimental design, sampling, hypothesis testing, and uncertainty estimation, with practical ML-system and data-quality evaluation experience.
- AI/LLM evaluation experience and proficiency in Python and SQL, including large-dataset analysis and reproducible workflows.
- Ability to distinguish reference-label defects from model errors and turn quality concerns into measurable questions and recommendations.
- Strong communication and teamwork skills; 12+ years of industry experience.
Nice to have
- Autonomous driving, robotics, or computer vision experience, especially with camera and LiDAR data or 2D/3D annotations.
- Experience with human-in-the-loop labeling and audit workflows, annotator agreement, or versioned benchmarks.
Pay
224,000 USD – 356,500 USD (base salary, Level 5); 272,000 USD – 431,250 USD (base salary, Level 6)
Tools
Python, SQL
AI focus
Evaluates AI/LLM systems and auto-labeling pipelines for autonomous driving, including failure analysis, data quality, and evaluation methods.
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