Staff Data Scientist, Weather

Waymo · Data Science (7ZZ)

Location: Mountain View, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA
Metro: San Francisco Bay Area
Workplace: Hybrid
Level: Staff+
Type: Unspecified
Pay: $251K–$310K/yr (estimated from posting text)
Posted: 4 months ago
Source: Greenhouse

What the posting covers

About the company

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 Experienced Driver™—to…

You will

Define and uphold a high bar for measurement rigor. Ensure we can confidently rely on the evaluation signals informing deployment, scaling, and mitigation decisions. Identify and work to resolve any gaps where current evaluation signals are not scaling with…

You have

Degree in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Mathematics, Physics). Either a PhD in a quantitative field and 8+ years of industry experience, or 12+ years of industry experience solving data science problems. Experience working with and building models…

We prefer

PhD in a quantitative, weather-adjacent field (Atmospheric Science, Meteorology, Hydrology, etc.), and/or academic experience developing and applying statistical methods in those fields. Experience working with third-party (e.g., public / private) weather…

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