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Uber

Data Scientist, Road Safety - Autonomous Vehicles

On site

Sunnyvale, United states

$ 158,000 /year

Junior

Full Time

26-02-2026

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Skills

Communication Python SQL Research Machine Learning Programming Analytics Data Science python programming Mathematics

Job Specifications

About The Role

The road safety science team is committed to making rare safety events even rarer. In this role you will partner closely with our safety and Autonomous Vehicles (AV) teams to develop insights analysis and metrics to understand an improve the safety of autonomous vehicles on Uber's platform.

What The Candidate Will Do

Partner with cross-functional teams across product, ops and engineering as weel as external partners to measure and understand AV safety.
Identify interventions and product improvements that make Uber safer for everyone.
Present findings to technical and non-technical teams.

Basic Qualifications

Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields.
2+ Years experience industry experience in Data Science
Strong SQL and Python programming
Strong applied knowledge of experiment design and analysis
Excellent communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in safety, risk or insurance.
Ability to drive clarity through analytics and metrics
Strong cross-functional collaboration
Experience in multi-sided marketplace applications

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$142,000 per year - USD$158,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$142,000 per year - USD$158,000 per year. For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits., For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$142,000 per year - USD$158,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$142,000 per year - USD$158,000 per year. For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.

About the Company

We are Uber. The go-getters. The kind of people who are relentless about our mission to help people go anywhere and get anything and earn their way. Movement is what we power. It’s our lifeblood. It runs through our veins. It’s what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can move better. For you. For all the places you want to go. For all the things you want to get. For all the ways you want to earn. Across the entire world. In real time. At the incredible speed of now. The idea for Ube... Know more