Drimva

Wayve

Senior Data Scientist

$210K–$240K

Sunnyvale, California USA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026

Experience
3+ years in a Data Science role.
Visa sponsorship
Visa sponsorship is available where applicable.

About the job

Partners with engineering teams to analyze real and simulated driving data and guide improvements to the Wayve AI Driver’s functionality, safety, and performance.

What you'll do

  • Develop performance metrics and design experiments to measure progress against product requirements.
  • Investigate model training and inference bottlenecks, and test hypotheses for improving the AI Driver.
  • Communicate analytical findings to support engineering prioritization and strategy.

What they ask for

  • 3+ years of experience in a Data Science role.
  • Production-level SQL and experience building large datasets and data-transformation pipelines.
  • Experience designing robust real-world experiments and evaluating test statistics.
  • Strong statistical foundations and proficiency in a statistical scripting language and data science or machine-learning packages.

Nice to have

  • Practical machine-learning experience, such as PyTorch, and interest in taking research ideas to production.
  • Experience with causal inference, econometrics or Bayesian methods; distributed computing; or promoting experimental best practices.

Pay

USD 209.7K – 240K (base salary or total pay not specified)

Tools

SQL, Python, pandas, sklearn, statsmodels, scipy, R, PyTorch

AI focus

Uses experimental and observational analyses of real and simulated driving to identify improvements to an autonomous-driving AI system, including investigating model training and inference.

Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative

First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 6, 2026 (UTC)