Wayve
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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