Data Scientist, Lead (Autonomous Vehicles)

Company: Woven Planet
Location: Palo Alto
Posted on: July 31, 2022

Job Description:

Woven Planet is building the safest mobility in the world. A subsidiary of Toyota, Woven Planet innovates and invests in new technologies, software, and business models that transform how we live, work and move. With a focus on automated driving, smart cities, robotics and more, we build on Toyota's legacy of trust and safety to deliver mobility solutions for all. For nearly a century, Toyota has been delivering products and services that improve lives. Automation that originated to increase the efficiency of daily activities has evolved into the safe, reliable, connected automobiles we enjoy and depend on today. Now, we are looking to the next 100 years and to extending that dream for a better life for all people. At Woven Planet we strive to build a safer, happier, more sustainable world.
Our unique global culture weaves modern Silicon Valley innovation and time-tested Japanese quality craftsmanship. The complementary strengths enable us to optimize safety, advance clean energy, elevate well-being, and improve how people live, work, and play. We envision a human-centered future where world-class technology solutions expand global access to mobility, amplify the capabilities of drivers, and empower humanity to thrive.
Responsibilities:

• Develop analytical frameworks and business metrics to measure performance with statistical rigor
• Partner with product managers, engineers, program managers, operations and leadership to translate data insights into decisions and action
• Find opportunities for efficiency improvements in the Autonomous program using data
• Ownership over data from instrumentation to executive-facing dashboards
• Author scalable ETL pipeline workflows using workflow orchestration engines like Airflow.
• Write advanced SQL for query engines like BigQuery to compute metrics or failure modes across large time-series data
  Experience:
  • Degree in a quantitative field - advanced degrees are preferred
  • A minimum of at least three years full time industry experience in a data science/analytics role
  • Proficiency in SQL - able to write structured and efficient queries on large data sets
  • Experience in programming, especially with data science and visualization libraries (Python preferred)
  • Strong oral and written communication skills, and ability to collaborate with cross-functional partners
  • (Nice to have) Experience with various interactive query engines (e.g., BigQuery, Presto), or data processing frameworks (e.g. Spark, Flink, Beam, Hive).
  • (Nice to have) Experience with workflow orchestration platforms (Airflow, Oozie, Azkaban).
  • (Nice to have) Good understanding of SQL Engine and able to conduct advanced performance tuning
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