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Avride

Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
AustinTexasUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Nov 14, 2025
Full-time

Lead Data Scientist – Autonomous Driving

Job description

Our team is responsible for understanding how our technology performs and turning that understanding into confident decisions. We bring together simulation data, real-world driving data, structured test results, and human-labeled data to evaluate the stack end to end. We collaborate across the stack and deliver analytics on a wide range of technology aspects, from low-level hardware and performance to behavior quality in specific road scenarios. We answer questions from issues with system performance in specific conditions to how ready we are overall to launch from a safety perspective.

Job responsibilities

  • Understand the technology deeply. Go deep into autonomous driving technology across behavior and hardware. Evaluate platform health and system behavior, and define the right metrics and metric hierarchy to quantify…
  • Help build and lead the team. Contribute to team formation, take part in hiring and leveling up analysts, and set direction for an evaluation focus area while collaborating with technology leaders and with teams that…
  • Be hands-on with experiments. Design, run, and interpret experiments using solid statistical methods. Be ready to analyze results yourself and translate them into well-supported decisions.
  • Build and automate analysis. Collaborate with data engineers and backend developers to assemble datasets and productionize analysis pipelines that automate recurring computations with attention to performance and…

Job requirements

  • Experience: 4+ years in analytics for a large-scale or complex technology product.
  • Statistics: strong background in statistical reasoning and methods for evaluating change and uncertainty.
  • Coding: strong Python and SQL; you can independently run experiments and ship analyses and pipelines end to end.
  • Leadership: proven technical leadership, mentoring, and hiring experience in analytics.

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