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Data Scientist Manager, Engineering

Palo Alto, California💼 Full-time💰 $228,000–$228,000🗓 2026-07-07 → 2026-07-31

Core

Lead the System Evaluation team to transform real-world drone operational data into actionable insights that inform engineering direction and ensure scalable, reliable autonomous delivery systems.

Role type

Manager, Data Science & Engineering (Simulation Evaluation)

Builds

Automated evaluation workflows, triage strategies, analysis algorithms, and data pipelines for autonomous drone fleets

Domain

Autonomous drone delivery / Robotics / Simulation

Deliverable

production ML models | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure

Required skills

Team leadership and coaching, System evaluation design, Statistical methods development, Data pipeline architecture, A/B testing and experiment design, Python/SQL/R programming, Root-cause analysis

Preferred skills

Experience with hardware/software systems, Simulation environments, Presenting to engineering leadership

Technologies

Python, SQL, R

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a team of technical data analysts, Design and deliver evaluation workflows and automated triage strategies, Define metrics and acceptance criteria for continuous software releases, Develop statistical methods to quantify performance and identify behavioral regressions, Connect operational findings to the engineering roadmap, Partner with engineering and flight operations to drive technical roadmap and root-cause analysis

Seniority

Manager, hands-on IC with team leadership

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