Senior Data Scientist - Test and Validation

Who We Are

Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly to make transportation safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. The Aurora Driver is a self-driving system designed to operate multiple vehicle types, from freight-hauling semi-trucks to ride-hailing passenger vehicles, and underpins Aurora Horizon and Aurora Connect, its driver-as-a-service products for trucking and ride-hailing. Aurora is working with industry leaders across the transportation ecosystem, including Toyota, FedEx, Volvo Trucks, PACCAR, Uber, Uber Freight, U.S. Xpress, Werner, Covenant, Schneider, and Ryder. For Aurora’s latest news, visit aurora.tech and @aurora_inno on Twitter.

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. 

Our team (Test and Validation Data Science and Engineering team) is responsible for accelerating driver development and safety validation by creating trusted north star metrics and providing insights through a data driven approach. We aim to establish accurate and trustworthy evaluation methodologies and metrics, and optimize them to efficiently measure autonomy performance and generate actionable insights.

We’re searching for a Senior Data Scientist to lay the foundation in making data-informed decisions that impact the safety of Autonomous Vehicle behaviors, verification and validation of Aurora's self-driving technology and business growth.

In this role, you will 

• Quantitatively understand Aurora Driver performance from various test frameworks to further Aurora's mission of delivering Autonomous Vehicle technology Safely, Quickly and Broadly.
• Define and validate metrics to accurately measure autonomy performance and evaluation system trustworthiness.
• Adopt innovative approaches to efficiently surface actionable insights from large scale data sets.
• Guide the design of simulated and real-world driving experiments to efficiently understand the gaps between achieved system performance/safety and desired targets
• Analyze coverage and effectiveness of simulation scenarios
• Correlate performance of the Aurora Driver on-road with offline test results
• Surface succinct, actionable data widely in regularly updated dashboards
• Ensure Autonomy Engineers are supported with data necessary to make timely, informed decisions

Required Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field
• Experience with design of experiments (e.g. A/B tests, ANOVA)
• Strong mathematics skills (e.g., statistics, algebra)
• Ability to communicate complex data in a simple, actionable way
• Practical knowledge of common data analysis, inference, and statistical modeling tools, using Python and SQL
• Passion for solving challenging, impactful problems
• Proven track record of solving difficult problems
• PhD and 3+ years of experience or MS and 5+ years of experience

Desirable Qualifications 

• Previous experience in Data Science in the Autonomous Vehicles space
• Experience architecting data and software systems to facilitate reliable analysis at scale
• Practical experience with Sisense (formerly known as Periscope Data) or similar data visualization and analysis tools.
• Experience with machine learning and AI
• Practical experience with software engineering (pipelining, developing analytic tools etc.) and software test methodologies

 

The base salary range for this position is $168K-$210K per year.  Aurora’s pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, the successful candidate’s starting base pay will be determined based on factors including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, relevant education or training, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. The successful candidate will also be eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits.

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