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Senior Data Scientist

Waymo 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 Experi

Company

Waymo

Location

Mountain View, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA

Status

Open

Posted

2025-12-17T22:09:14+00:00

Waymo is hiring a senior data scientist to build evaluation frameworks for the Waymo Driver and for its simulation software. The work covers new metrics for autonomous-driving and large-scale ML model performance, statistical methods for rare-event rate estimation and for combining real with synthetic data, and communicating findings to senior stakeholders. The posting asks for a quantitative degree plus five years of industry data science experience (or a PhD and three), and Python, SQL or R. Mentoring and deployment-readiness decisions are part of the role.