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Staff Data Scientist

Sunnyvale, California USA💼 Full-time💰 $276,100–$311,400🗓 2026-03-31 → 2026-09-25

Core

Partner with engineering teams to develop actionable insights guiding improvements to the Wayve AI Driver for autonomous mobility.

Role type

Staff Data Scientist (AI/AV)

Builds

Wayve AI Driver (end-to-end AI for autonomous mobility)

Domain

Autonomous Vehicles / AI

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

SQL, experimental design (A/B), statistical testing, Python (pandas, sklearn, statsmodels, scipy), data visualization, hypothesis validation

Preferred skills

PyTorch, causal inference, econometric techniques, Bayesian methodologies, distributed computing (Spark, Hadoop)

Technologies

Python, pandas, sklearn, statsmodels, scipy, PyTorch, Spark, Hadoop

Responsibilities

Formulate and iterate performance metrics for engineering efforts; Design experiments and off-road measurements; Investigate model training/inference bottlenecks and validate hypotheses

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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