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Staff Data Scientist, Safety Metrics

Waymo

$238,000 - $302,000
Dec 19, 2025
Mountain View, CA, USA • San Francisco, CA, USA • New York, NY, USA
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Waymo aims to improve the quality of the software that drives autonomous vehicles by measuring and enhancing the safety metrics of the Waymo Driver, which powers its fully autonomous ride-hail service and other vehicle platforms.

Requirements

  • PhD in Statistics, Math, Physics, or another quantitative area (e.g., Computer Science, Robotics)
  • 7+ years of industry experience
  • Strong communication/leadership to address a high surface area across different organizations and products
  • Excellent data skills that produce efficient, data-reasoned choices for simplifying metrics and validating their quality
  • Proficiency in coding (across C++, Python, SQL) that prevents them from being bottlenecked by Waymo's metric infrastructures
  • Ability to take ambiguous business requirements and propose a technical solution

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, validate and launch driving behavior metrics
  • Use simulations and real world examples to build datasets for model training and metric validation
  • Design A/B experiments to evaluate two versions of software
  • Collect, align, and advise stakeholder needs, providing expert opinion on how best to run rigorous, statistical evaluation.

Other

  • PhD in a quantitative field
  • 7+ years of industry experience
  • Strong communication and leadership skills