About the Role
Waymo is seeking a Product Data Scientist to join the Product Data Science team. This role will collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, and Operations to leverage data for informed decision-making, focusing on projects that improve safety, operational efficiency, market analysis, and rider satisfaction to help scale the Waymo Driver.
Responsibilities
- Define, build, and maintain KPIs and metrics to measure operational safety and quality across our Operations Center
- Architect and scale data infrastructure to support automated reporting for Road Rule Events, improving operational transparency and safety insights
- Quantify operational capacity to handle events, providing actionable data to scale team performance and optimize response protocols
- Analyze agent response precision to identify performance patterns, optimize workflows, and provide input for AI model training
- Partner cross-functionally to translate business challenges into robust data pipelines and reporting solutions that drive operational resilience
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Proven track record of architecting and scaling projects
- Excellent communication and Stakeholder & Management skills
- Ability to communicate complex topics clearly and understandably to stakeholders at all levels
- Extensive experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
- Action Oriented Analytical mindset - ability to make actionable recommendations from data
- Experience in the Autonomous Vehicle industry or a strong background in engineering or physics
- Experience working with Operations
Skills
- Data modeling
- Data warehousing
- ETL pipeline development
- Communication
- Stakeholder management
Location
- US
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000—$247,000 USD
Benefits
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Equity incentive plan
- Generous Company benefits program
About the Company
- Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver.
- Started as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009.
- Focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve mobility and save lives.
- The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can be applied to various vehicle platforms and product use cases.
- The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
