Data Scientist, Road Safety - Autonomous Vehicles

Uber Uber · Consumer · San Francisco, CA +1 · Data Science

This role focuses on analyzing and improving the safety of autonomous vehicles by developing insights, analysis, and metrics. It involves partnering with cross-functional teams, identifying interventions and product improvements, and presenting findings. Requires a quantitative background, data science experience, SQL, Python, and experiment design knowledge.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with cross-functional teams across product, ops and engineering as weel as external partners to measure and understand AV safety.
  2. Identify interventions and product improvements that make Uber safer for everyone.
  3. Present findings to technical and non-technical teams.

Skills

Required

  • Statistics
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Operations Research
  • Data Science
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Experiment Design
  • Analysis

Nice to have

  • Safety
  • Risk
  • Insurance
  • Analytics
  • Metrics
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Multi-sided marketplace applications

What the JD emphasized

  • Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields.
  • 2+ Years experience industry experience in Data Science
  • Strong SQL and Python programming
  • Strong applied knowledge of experiment design and analysis