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# Senior Data Scientist

- **Company:** wayve
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £60,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** A/B Testing, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Distributed Systems, Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Standard Sql, SciPy, SQL Databases, Pytorch, Apache Spark, Pandas, Scikit Learn, Statistics Packages
- **Published:** August 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5841744846

## About the Role

* 3+ years of experience working in a Data Science role.
 * Fluent in querying and building large datasets, including writing production-level SQL for data-transformation pipelines.
 * Prior experience designing robust real-world experiments, such as A/B tests, and critically evaluating test statistics.
 * Strong foundation in statistics, including testing appropriate distributions and the assumptions behind frequentist statistics.
 * Proficiency in a statistical scripting language and data science or ML packages, such as Python with pandas, sklearn, statsmodels, and scipy, or R with dplyr, caret, and stats.
 * Strong ability to summarise, visualise, and communicate findings in a clear and compelling way.
 * Track record of influencing team direction through your findings.
 * Bias toward deriving actionable insight that can drive prioritisation and strategy for others.
 * Comfortable working asynchronously across time zones with cross-functional partners.
 * Deep curiosity about building something new and helping define AV2.0 and how we build it.
 * Practical experience with machine learning, such as PyTorch.
 * Passion to take research ideas to production.
 * Track record of promoting statistical rigour and experimental best practices in prior roles.
 * Prior experience using causal inference or econometric techniques and Bayesian methodologies for hypothesis testing.
 * Prior experience using large datasets with distributed computing, such as Spark, Hadoop, or other map-reduce technologies.
 * Experience working in a fast-moving tech company or startup.

## Description

* Partner with one or more engineering teams to develop actionable insights that guide improvements to the Wayve AI Driver.
 * Use experimental and observational analyses of real and simulated driving to help teams advance the functionality, safety, and performance of the Wayve AI Driver.
 * Formulate and iterate on the performance metrics that organise engineering efforts and guide progress toward commercial success.
 * Design experiments and targeted off-road measurements to ensure product requirements are delivered to customers while maintaining safety and performance.
 * Investigate factors in model training and inference that lead to bottlenecks in functionality and performance.
 * Identify and validate hypotheses for unlocking improvements.

Technologies:

 * AI
 * Hadoop
 * Hardware
 * Machine Learning
 * Model Training
 * PyTorch
 * Python
 * SQL
 * Spark
 * pandas


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