Waymo
Staff Data Scientist
$238K–$302K
Mountain View, California, USA +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Dec 19, 2025
- Location
- Mountain View, California, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Either a PhD in a quantitative field and 5+ years of industry experience, or 7+ years of industry experience solving data science problems.
- Education
- Degree in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Mathematics, Physics).
About the job
Leads initiatives to measure and improve the quality, efficiency, and business relevance of Waymo’s behavioral evaluation methods for autonomous-driving software.
What you'll do
- Develop methodologies and KPIs to assess behavioral evaluation solutions, and guide the evaluation portfolio used by software engineers.
- Analyze evaluation bottlenecks and improve metrics, sampling strategies, and statistical inference.
- Partner with product, engineering, and evaluation teams to scale portfolio monitoring, inform launch criteria, and drive continuous improvement.
What they ask for
- Degree in a quantitative field.
- Either a PhD in a quantitative field and 5+ years of industry experience, or 7+ years of industry experience solving data science problems.
- Strong statistical background, including applied advanced methods such as experimental design or causal inference; familiarity with ML systems/models.
- Knowledge of data analysis libraries and packages in Python, R, and/or SQL.
Nice to have
- Experience developing production-grade software and tools; technical leadership of a broad data science area or independently delivering data science projects with business value.
- Experience with large-scale evaluation or experimentation/data platforms, or with autonomous driving or ride hailing.
Pay
$238,000 — $302,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, R, SQL
AI focus
The role involves evaluating autonomous-driving software and familiarity with machine-learning systems/models; no AI development work is specified.
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