What you'll be doing: As a tech lead, you will demonstrate your leadership by: Defining success criteria from ambiguous problem statements. Driving evaluation strategies and roadmaps, leading the development, monitoring and analysis of safety, roadcraft and compliance metrics for core autonomous capabilities. Ensuring comprehensive validation of AV performance with high fidelity signals. Streamlining testing and road monitoring processes in collaboration with AV Engineers to build a fast feedback loop to AV model development. Mentoring fellow Data Scientists and fostering a positive, collaborative work environment. Role-modeling a positive, humble and growth-oriented attitude. As an individual contributor, you will be responsible for: Building high quality data miners and metrics that serve testing, road monitoring, and model training. Analyzing AV performance data to extract insights and opportunities for optimization. Developing new methodologies, e.g., machine learning based approaches, to scalably improve the quality of metrics. Testing and deploying your methods in our simulation environment. Collaborating with AV Software Engineers, Systems Engineers, Test Engineers along with Product Management and other stakeholders to build shareable tools, methods, and dashboards. Converting insights into actionable recommendations for AV software development and launch readiness decisions, and succinctly communicating these findings to partners and leadership. What you must have: A Masters or PhD degree or equivalent experience in Robotics, Transportation, Industrial Engineering, Operation Research or other relevant industry experience. 5+ years post-academic experience in evaluating large models, data science, machine learning, or a closely-related field. Strong software engineering foundation and proficiency in production-environment coding and best practices. Proficiency in SQL and Python. Experience designing, training, and critically analyzing machine learning models for big data. Solid statistical foundations, familiarity with hypothesis testing, statistical power, and common biases in data. Experience designing, developing and maintaining automated reporting tools for management and other partners. Creative, inventive, and passionate about seeking new solutions to problems and opportunities. A track record of leading multi-functional initiatives and collaborating with engineering and product teams. 3+ years of experience mentoring other data scientists. Bonus Points! Experience in the autonomous driving industry. Experience in C++. Salary and Benefits: The salary range for this position is $183,600 - $270,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, long-term incentives, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change. Why Cruise? Our benefits are here to support the whole you: Competitive salary and benefits. Medical / dental / vision, Life and AD&D. Subsidized mental health benefits. Paid time off and holidays. Paid parental, medical, family care, and military leave of absence. 401(k) Cruise matching program. Fertility benefits. Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account. Flexible Spending Account & Health Saving Account. Perks Wallet program for benefits/perks. Pre-tax Commuter benefit plan for local employees. CruiseFlex, our location-flexible work policy. (Learn more about CruiseFlex). Company Overview: 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, caste, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, age, 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 ******. #J-18808-Ljbffr