Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist, Metrics

Key Skills

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

Job Description

The Motional Santa Monica office is located in the heart of 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica at 1453 3rd Street. With all th e modern amenities for productive work and play, it is steps away from the popular pedestrian outdoor shopping area and Santa Monica beach.

The ML metrics team focuses on data-driven metrics development for systems and subsystems to guide training and evaluation of our ne ural networks. The team charter is centered around two core concepts. First: how should we score the AV system as a whole in a way that is compliant with legal, ethical and ride comfort related constraints? Second: given such system level score, how do we score subsystems in a way that informs progress towards the system level goals.

What You'll Be Doing

• Work with system engineering and metrics teams to develop data-driven metrics to score the AV behavior at a system level. 
• Conduct variational analysts on the system architecture graph to understand what aspects of the subsystem performance matter at the system level.
• Conduct bottom-up analysis to derive metrics targeted at key aspects of safety.
• Deploy code and systems to put metrics into production.

What We're Looking For

• 2+ years of industry experience.
• Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
• Solid understanding of fundamental statistics and machine learning concepts.
• Track record of driving research projects from start to completion, including conception, problem definit ion, experimentation, iteration, and finally publication or productization.
• Data science and system evaluation experience.
• Strong communication and presentation skills - can explain complicated topics and ideas in a clear and co ncise manner.
• Fluent in python or C++.

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