Wayve
Senior Data Scientist
Sunnyvale, California USA · Senior · Full-time
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$2,626 more — $212,326 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $212,326 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Data Scientists" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Data Scientists (15-2051) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- We operate core working hours so you can determine the schedule that works best for you and your team.
Responsibilities
- Design experiments and targeted off-road measurements to ensure that we deliver product requirements to customers while maintaining safety and performance
- Fluent in querying and building large datasets, writing production-level SQL for use in data-transformation pipelines.
- A bias towards deriving actionable insight that can be used to drive prioritisation and strategy for others.
- Comfortable working asynchronously across time zones with cross-functional partners
- You are deeply curious about building something new and relish the idea of helping to define AV2.0 and how we build it.
Compensation
- This role is a full-time role based in Sunnyvale, CA (hybrid) and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $209,700 to 266,800, plus a competitive equity package.
Benefits
- Practical experience with machine learning (e.g. pytorch).
Company info
- At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.
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