AI & Emerging technologies

Senior Data Scientist

wayve

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

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.

Pay / Benefits
  • competitive salary
  • meaningful equity
  • relocation support
  • hybrid working
  • learning and development budget
  • comprehensive benefits
Responsibilities
  • 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
Key requirements
  • 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)

Reference: WJ-747_31168521

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