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Senior Staff Data Scientist, Perception

Waymo - Mountain View, CA USA

Posted May 4, 2026

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Senior Staff Data Scientist, Perception Mountain View, CA USA 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 Driverâ„¢-to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. This role is part of Waymo's Perception Development Foundations (PDF) team. The PDF team's mission is to accelerate improvements to Waymo's Perception system by providing teams with cutting-edge Data, Model Development tools, and Evaluation frameworks. We focus on removing toil, increasing automation, and enhancing how models use data and how we measure performance. In this hybrid role, you will report to a director of engineering. You will: - Define and own the overarching vision and multi-year strategy for determining the size, composition, and collection methods for datasets used in Perception model training and evaluation. - Drive the design and organizational adoption of frameworks to estimate data needs based on model performance, scaling laws, generalization goals, and a deep understanding of the diversity in new geographies. - Define and refine strategies

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