Senior Data Scientist
About The Position
As a Data Scientist supporting AI Engineers, you will partner with one or more engineering teams to develop actionable insights that guide improvements to the Wayve AI Driver. Through experimental and observational analyses of real and simulated driving, you will help teams advance the functionality, safety and performance of the Wayve AI Driver. This is a full-time role based in our London office, with two days a week in the office as part of our hybrid working model. You will work closely with engineering and cross-functional partners to turn data into clear, practical direction. Your findings will help teams understand performance, validate product requirements and prioritise the opportunities that matter most. You will be comfortable working asynchronously across time zones, communicating findings clearly and compellingly, and influencing team direction through evidence.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in a Data Science role.
- Fluent in querying and building large datasets, including writing production-level SQL for data-transformation pipelines.
- Experience designing robust real-world experiments, such as A/B tests, and critically evaluating test statistics.
- Strong statistical foundations, including selecting appropriate distributions and testing the assumptions behind frequentist statistics.
- Proficient in a statistical scripting language and data science or machine-learning packages, such as Python with pandas, sklearn, statsmodels or scipy, or R with dplyr, caret or stats.
- Skilled at summarising, visualising and communicating findings in an accessible and compelling way.
- Influenced team direction through your findings and bring a bias towards actionable insight that can drive prioritisation and strategy.
- Comfortable working asynchronously across time zones with cross-functional partners.
- Deeply curious about building something new and excited by the opportunity to help define AV2.0 and how we build it.
Nice To Haves
- Practical machine-learning experience, for example with PyTorch, and a passion for taking research ideas to production.
- A track record of promoting statistical rigour and experimental best practices.
- Experience with causal inference, econometric techniques or Bayesian methodologies for hypothesis testing.
- Experience working with large datasets and distributed computing technologies, such as Spark, Hadoop or other map-reduce tools.
- Experience working in a fast-moving technology company or startup.
Responsibilities
- Formulating and iterating on the performance metrics that organise our engineering efforts and guide progress towards commercial success.
- Designing experiments and targeted off-road measurements to help ensure we deliver customer product requirements while maintaining safety and performance.
- Investigating factors in model training and inference that create bottlenecks in functionality and performance.
- Identifying, testing and validating hypotheses that can unlock improvements to the Wayve AI Driver.
- Summarising, visualising and communicating findings in an accessible way that supports prioritisation and strategy.
Benefits
- Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
- Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long-term success of Wayve
- Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
- Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands-on in vehicle workshops and labs
- Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth
- Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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