Senior Data Scientist

As a Data Scientist supporting AI Engineers, you partner with engineering teams to turn data into actionable direction for the Wayve AI Driver. You design experiments, define performance metrics, and evaluate real-world and simulated driving to improve safety, reliability, and commercial success. You communicate insights clearly to influence roadmap and prioritisation across time zones. This role offers hands-on impact in shaping AV2.0 and scalable autonomous driving tech, with cross-functional collaboration and a data-driven culture.

• competitive salary
• meaningful equity
• relocation support
• hybrid working
• learning and development budget
• comprehensive benefits

• Define and iterate performance metrics to guide engineering progress and business impact
• Design experiments and off-road measurements to meet customer product requirements while ensuring safety
• Investigate model training and inference bottlenecks affecting functionality
• Test and validate hypotheses to drive Wayve AI Driver improvements
• Summarise and visualise findings to support prioritisation and strategy
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners and communicate findings effectively

• 3+ years of experience in a Data Science role
• Fluent in querying and building large datasets with production-level SQL
• Experience designing robust real-world experiments (e.g., A/B tests) and evaluating test statistics
• Strong statistical foundations with appropriate distributions and hypothesis testing
• Proficient in Python with pandas, sklearn, statsmodels or scipy, or R with dplyr, caret or stats
• Skilled at summarising, visualising and communicating findings clearly
• Ability to influence team direction with actionable insights and prioritisation
• Comfort with asynchronous work across time zones and cross-functional partners
• Curiosity about building new things and contributing to AV2

• strong communication
• influence and stakeholder management
• curiosity and learning mindset
• SQL
• Python (pandas, sklearn, statsmodels, scipy)
• R (dplyr, caret, stats)