Torc Robotics

Torc Robotics

Safety Statistician, III – Risk & Safety Analysis

Blacksburg, VA, Remote - US · Mid

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 16 days ago
PythonSQLMachine LearningStatisticsA/B TestingRoboticsActuarial Science

About the role

  • Meet the Team As a Safety Statistician - Risk & Safety Analysis, you will play a critical role in how Torc evaluates, communicates, and makes decisions about the safety of its autonomous driving systems.
  • Your work will directly influence how safety performance and risk are measured, understood, and acted upon across the organization.

Responsibilities

  • Develop automated, production-ready analysis workflows that support continuous safety monitoring
  • A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners.
  • Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.
  • You will influence the design and execution of statistically rigorous analyses that inform safety assurance strategies, engineering priorities, and risk-based decision making.
  • This is a technical role focused on applied statistics and decision support, not dashboarding, experimentation platforms, or generic ML product analytics.

Requirements

  • Advanced degree in Statistics or a closely related field
  • M.S. with 3+ years of experience, or
  • PhD with 1+ years of experience

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience using Python for analysis (SQL and/or R a plus, but not required)

Benefits

  • Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.
  • Select and defend appropriate statistical approaches for sparse, noisy, or rare-event data, applying Bayesian and frequentist methods and leveraging machine learning techniques where appropriate

Company info

  • At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.
  • Meet the Team
  • As a Safety Statistician - Risk & Safety Analysis, you will play a critical role in how Torc evaluates, communicates, and makes decisions about the safety of its autonomous driving systems.

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