Staff Data Scientist, Weather

Lead weather modeling initiatives for Waymo's autonomous driving service.

• •Waymo is seeking a Staff Data Scientist to lead initiatives in modeling weather patterns and their impact on their autonomous driving service.
• •This role is critical for scaling their ride-hailing service and achieving Waymo's ambitious goals.
• •Key Responsibilities Build pipelines and models integrating weather-specific data sources to enhance weather intelligence and prediction capabilities.
• •Measure the performance of the Waymo driver in adverse/extreme weather conditions and communicate findings to senior stakeholders.
• •Optimize operational processes for addressing adverse/extreme weather and influence roadmaps for engineering work.
• •Act as a technical lead to junior data scientists and champion data science excellence.
• •Requirements Degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Mathematics, Physics). 8+ years of industry experience solving data science problems (or PhD + 8 years).
• •Experience working with and building models for spatio-temporal data.
• •Experience as a technical lead.
• •Expertise using advanced statistical methods and familiarity with ML systems/models.