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Senior Data Scientist

Sunnyvale, California USA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-26 → 2026-09-28

Core

Build an analytical layer to measure driving model performance, close the loop between on-road and simulation testing, and improve evaluation methods for autonomous vehicle release decisions.

Role type

Senior IC data scientist (autonomous driving evaluation)

Builds

Evaluation metrics, simulation test suites, and release decision frameworks for autonomous driving models

Domain

Autonomous driving, robotics, safety-critical ML systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Statistical methods for A/B testing and experimentation, Python, SQL, data analysis at scale, autonomous driving metrics, simulation-based testing, on-road experiment analysis

Preferred skills

OEM validation workflows, evaluation infrastructure improvement, cross-functional product/safety/engineering collaboration

Technologies

Python, SQL

Responsibilities

Define evaluation workflows and tooling for model release, identify gaps in simulation and offline metrics, analyze on-road vs offline test discrepancies, perform statistical analysis for model promotion recommendations, develop richer model quality views using behavioral signals, partner on evaluation method definitions, support OEM QA issue quantification

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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