Senior Data Scientist

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, C++, C Programming, SQL, Apache Hadoop, Scala Programming, Machine learning techniques, Data science techniques, PyTorch, TensorFlow, MapReduce, R Programming

Job Description

We’re Cruise, a self-driving service designed for the cities we love.

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.

We're Cruise, a self-driving service designed for the cities we love.

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.

The Senior Data Scientist will work directly with Autonomous Vehicle (AV) engineers and leadership to extract key insights from our massive real-world and simulation data and provide actionable recommendations. You will take the lead on analyzing the enormous datasets of our self-driving cars, define company/team metrics, build analytics pipelines to power ML models, and synthesize information across multiple datasets by utilizing scripting languages and statistical methods. You will create analytics datasets that will be used to inform and prioritize AV development. The ideal candidate for this role is passionate about discovering new data insights, uses innovative data/ML solutions to solve novel problems, and drives optimization through technical and product recommendations.

What you’ll be doing:

• Define, report, and monitor key performance indicators of product areas, and lead deep dives into variations of KPIs from normal behavior
• Write custom SQL queries in Google BigQuery to identify driving scenes/metrics of interest
• Build analytics error-mining pipelines to uncover “failure” examples to improve our machine learning (ML) models
• Use Python to perform custom feature extraction and transformation across terabytes of data using distributed compute
• Build data visualizations using Looker and Jupyter notebooks as a method of conveying data insights
• Help engineering teams set up tests and perform statistical analysis on results to provide concrete insights
• Build ML models to drive AV development and/or predict undesired events, using modeling frameworks such as linear/logistic regressions, gradient boosting decision trees and neural networks
• Collaborate with team members to optimize engineering workflows and build shareable data tools
• Deploy production systems that deliver continuous insights
• Train engineers and cross functional partners on how to most effectively use the data tools at Cruise
• Convert analytical insights into concrete, practical recommendations for business or product improvement, and succinctly communicate these findings to various stakeholders and leadership.

What you must have:

• 3+ years post-academic experience in analytics, consumer-facing product experience preferred
• Experienced statistician with a track record of setting up and optimizing metrics tracking systems and A/B testing methodologies
• Experience with building and maintaining data pipelines, ensuring data integrity
• Experience with building ML models and the ML workflow
• Experience developing, maintaining, and automating metrics reporting to management
• Proficient at both SQL and Python/R (Python preferred)
• Creative, scrappy, and enthusiastic about seeking new solutions to problems and opportunities
• A track record of leading cross-functional initiatives

Bonus points!

• Experience with MapReduce frameworks (Hadoop, Spark, BigQuery) and/or Apache Beam/Google Dataflow
• Experience with DAG orchestrators (eg. Airflow/Kubeflow/Luigi)
• Experience with analyzing time series data
• Consumer-facing product experience
• Experience in AV or Automotive industry

Why Cruise?

• 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.