Senior Staff Data Scientist, Perception
Waymo · Mountain View, CA · Perception (7LT)
About this role
Waymo is hiring a senior-level Data Scientist based in Mountain View, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, R, SQL, Machine Learning. Compensation is listed at $298,000–$368,000 per year.
- Role
- Data Scientist
- Function
- data engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
- Department
- Perception (7LT)
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Job description
from Waymo careersWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
This role is part of Waymo's Perception Development Foundations (PDF) team. The PDF team's mission is to accelerate improvements to Waymo's Perception system by providing teams with cutting-edge Data, Model Development tools, and Evaluation frameworks. We focus on removing toil, increasing automation, and enhancing how models use data and how we measure performance.
In this hybrid role, you will report to a director of engineering.
You will:
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Define and own the overarching vision and multi-year strategy for determining the size, composition, and collection methods for datasets used in Perception model training and evaluation.
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