Product Data Scientist, Expansion

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 schedule and you will report to the Manager of Product Data Science.

• Work with cross functional teams to better understand and propose how Waymo should be expanding its operating territories
• Build models to suggest long term territory sizes and vehicle allocation plans.
• Define and build the expansion related metrics to measure the effectiveness of our expansion plan.
• Conduct deep dive analysis to identify areas for future improvement

• At least 7 years of industry experience
• Coding skills in Python and SQL
• Strong communication and stakeholder & management skills
• Machine Learning and optimization algorithm experience
• Experience working with the product management and engineering teams
• Proficiency in data pipeline development

• Experience with geospatial data
• Experience with causal inference and product A/B testing.

• Potential to travel to pre-launch Waymo territories (5-10%)

$230,000 — $284,000 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.