Staff Data Scientist - Safety Analytics

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We’re building the world’s most advanced, self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.

Cruisers have the opportunity to grow and develop while learning from leaders at the forefront of their fields. With a culture of internal mobility, there's an opportunity to thrive in a variety of disciplines. This is a place for dreamers and doers to succeed.

If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, join us.

What you’ll be doing:

The Safety Analytics Data Science team within Cruise AI interprets signals from on-road and simulation testing to measure and benchmark AV safety by using cutting edge statistical and machine-learning techniques, combined with deep domain expertise in real-world observational data analysis. As a Staff Data Scientist on this team, you will work directly with an array of partners, including executive leadership, Autonomous Vehicle (AV) engineers, product managers, and operations teams.

As a leader, you will demonstrate and develop team-building skills by:

• Defining success criteria from ambiguous problem statements
• Defining the road map for your product area
• Mentoring fellow Data Scientists and fostering a positive, collaborative work environment
• Role-modeling a humble, positive, and growth-oriented attitude
• Translating complex concepts into clear and meaningful recommendations for partners.

As an individual contributor, you will be responsible for extracting high-impact insights from our extensive collection of on-road and simulation data by:

• Understanding the tradeoffs associated with common machine learning model architectures such as linear/logistic regressions, gradient boosted decision trees and neural networks
• Debugging model outliers/edge cases
• Measuring model uncertainty using techniques such as bootstrapping
• Analyzing model performance and feature importance
• Analyzing the results of driving and simulation to uncover performance changes, and the source of those changes
• Deploying production systems that deliver continuous insights
• Quantifying the impact of AV changes using statistical methods, data mining, and experimental design principles
• Collaborating with team members to build shareable tools, methods, and dashboards
• Converting insights into concrete, significant recommendations for business or product improvement, and succinctly communicate these findings to various partners and leadership

The ideal candidate for this role is passionate about the AV Industry, has a track record of discovering insights from extensive data, and works to discover and address customer needs through their output.

What you must have:

• A Masters or PhD degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years post-academic experience in data science, machine learning, or a closely-related field.
• Significant statistical experience in data-intensive on-line systems. Examples include real-time metrics tracking systems and A/B testing methodologies.
• Experience deploying feature and model pipelines at scale, and monitoring model performance.
• Experience designing, training, and critically analyzing ML models for big data.
• Experience developing and maintaining automated reporting tools for management and other partners.
• Productive in both SQL and Python.
• Creative, inventive, and passionate about seeking new solutions to problems and opportunities
• A track record of leading multi-functional initiatives
• Experience in advising leadership at the director, VP and CTO level on technical strategy and tech teams talent needs.

Bonus Points!

• Experience with MapReduce frameworks (Hadoop, Spark, BigQuery) and/or Apache Beam/Google Dataflow
• Experience with DAG orchestrators (eg. Airflow/Kubeflow-Pipelines/Luigi)
• Experience with statistical analysis of ML model performance
• Experience in AV or Automotive industry

• Our benefits are here to support the whole you:
  • Competitive salary and benefits 
  • 401(k) Cruise matching program 
  • Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and Life
  • One Medical membership
  • Subsidized mental health benefits
  • Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
  • Healthy meals and snacks provided for non-remote employees
  • Paid parental, jury duty, bereavement, family care and medical leave
  • Fertility Benefits
  • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, subsidized by Cruise
  • Flexible Spending Account 
  • Monthly wellness stipend
  • Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan for non-remote employees
  • CruiseFlex - a working policy for US-Based Cruisers that lets you and your manager find what working style is best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home or a combination of home and in-office time.

• We’re Integrated
  • Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.

• We’re Funded
  • GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price & Walmart have invested billions in Cruise. Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry. Our deep resources greatly accelerate our operating speed.

• We’re Independent
  • We have our own governance, board of directors, equity, and investors. Our independence allows us to not just work on the edge of technology, but also define it.

• We’re Vested
  • You won’t just own your work here, you’ll have the potential to own equity in Cruise, too. We are competing in a market that is projected to grow exponentially, which gives our company valuation room to grow.
  • Recurring Liquidity Opportunity (RLO) - a unique equity program where employees, both current and former, have the option to sell any amount of their vested equity on a recurring basis, currently quarterly.

Cruise LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do the best work of their lives. 

We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, or disability. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on these or other protected categories or social identities. Cruise will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable laws.

Cruise is committed to the full inclusion of all applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know or email HR@getcruise.com.

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Vaccine Mandate. 

At Cruise, we’re tasked with leading in the communities we serve — and doing our part to help keep our communities and our teams safe. Our #StaySafe culture transcends and informs all we do, and because of this, as of October 31, 2021 Cruise will be mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for all US-based Cruisers who need or want to access any of our US Cruise facilities and engage in any business travel — including attending any in-person Company-sponsored event. 

If you are unable to get a vaccine due to a medical condition, disability, or a strongly-held religious belief, Cruise will consider requests for an accommodation.

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