Waymo
Senior Data Scientist
$204K–$259K
Mountain View, California, USA +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Dec 17, 2025
- Location
- Mountain View, California, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of industry experience solving data science problems, or a PhD in a quantitative field and 3+ years of industry experience.
- Education
- Degree in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Mathematics, Physics).
About the job
Evaluates autonomous-vehicle, machine-learning, and simulation performance using statistical methods and metrics to inform safety, quality, and deployment decisions.
What you'll do
- Develop evaluation frameworks, metrics, and statistical methods for autonomous-vehicle performance, ML models, and simulation quality.
- Analyze simulation and on-road data, investigate trends and anomalies, and communicate data-driven findings to senior stakeholders.
- Partner with Product and Engineering on deployment readiness, drive project decisions, and mentor data scientists.
What they ask for
- Degree in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Mathematics, Physics).
- Expertise applying advanced statistical methods; familiarity with ML systems/models.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Python/SQL/R data analysis libraries and packages.
Nice to have
- PhD in a quantitative field.
- Experience in autonomous driving or ride hailing, or adjacent areas such as deep learning, diffusion models, traffic modeling, safety evaluation, or prediction.
Pay
$204,000 — $259,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, SQL, R
AI focus
Develop evaluation frameworks for large-scale ML models and simulation quality; apply statistical methods to autonomous-driving data.
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