Senior Product Data Scientist, Marketplace

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 Driver™—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.

Waymo’s Product Data Science team works cross-functionally with Engineering, Product and Operations to help the company make the most informed decisions using data. Our team collaborates on high-impact projects across the company — from driving quality and operational efficiency to market analysis and rider satisfaction scores — we help to safely and efficiently scale the Waymo Driver. We are data-driven, curious, open-minded, and adapt quickly to new information.

This role follows a hybrid work scheduleandyou will report to a Product Data Science Lead

• Partner with Engineer, Product and Data Science teams to develop Machine Learning models to improve the efficiency of Waymo’s Marketplace
• Apply ML models to predict conversion, wait times, retention and build better understanding of vehicle values in different positions
• Apply optimization models to optimize assignment of Waymo cars to customers or positioning locations
• Build novel reinforcement learning models that continually iterate over the parameters in pricing, matching and positioning
• Define, conduct and evaluate experiments on new models

• Statistical knowledge
• Coding skills (Python and SQL)
• Experience with Machine Learning
• Experience with Reinforcement Learning
• Experience with experimentation
• At least 4 years of industry experience

• Experience with optimization modeling and implementation using solver packages (e.g., CP-SAT, CPLEX, Gurobi, etc.)
• Experience with optimization
• Experience at another Ride hailing or Marketplace company

Salary Range $196,000 — $248,000 USD

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.