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Senior Data Scientist

$210K–$240K

Sunnyvale, California USA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026

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About the job

Analyzes simulation, offline evaluation, and on-road data to improve autonomous-driving performance measures and support confident model release decisions.

What you'll do

  • Investigate model performance and evaluation results, using statistical analysis to produce recommendations for engineering teams.
  • Improve evaluation metrics, test coverage, and measurement methods based on simulation and on-road findings.
  • Partner with Data Science, Validation, and Product to strengthen evaluation practices and release decisions.

What they ask for

  • Hands-on experience with ML evaluation data, driving-performance metrics, or complex test results at scale.
  • Experience applying statistical methods to A/B testing and experimentation, including confidence intervals, distributions, and sampling.
  • Proficiency in Python or SQL and comfort analyzing large datasets.
  • Strong analytical, investigative, and communication skills, with the ability to work autonomously.

Nice to have

  • Experience in autonomous driving, robotics, safety-critical ML systems, simulation-based testing, or on-road experiment analysis.
  • Experience with OEM or partner validation workflows, or improving evaluation infrastructure and measurement methodology.

Pay

$209.7K – $240K (base salary)

Tools

Python, SQL

AI focus

Uses evaluation and experiment data to improve autonomous-driving models, performance measurement, and release decisions.

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)