Senior Data Scientist, Data Quality and AI Evaluation

Nvidia

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On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
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$224,000–$356,500 / yr
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Full-time
Posted
4 days ago
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Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing

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TL;DR · Senior Data Scientist, Data Quality and AI Evaluation

The Senior Data Scientist, Data Quality and AI Evaluation joins the team building a next-generation AI-native autonomous driving architecture that integrates classical safety stacks with foundation models. You will define quality metrics and evaluation methods for auto-labeling pipelines, build human-verified golden datasets for critical corner cases, and analyze large-scale sensor and camera data to identify systematic errors. Key responsibilities include developing automated approaches for failure clustering, building statistically sound audits, and establishing release acceptance criteria. You must possess strong foundations in statistics, experimental design, and uncertainty estimation, with practical experience in AI/LLM evaluation. Required skills include proficiency in Python and SQL for analyzing large datasets. You will solve complex problems regarding data leakage, selection bias, and annotator consistency within the context of autonomous vehicle perception and labeling operations.

What does a Data Scientist earn in California?

Median $214000 from 115 postings across 28 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define quality metrics and evaluation methods to assess auto-labeling pipeline performance and regressions.
  • Build and maintain human-verified golden datasets covering representative driving conditions and critical corner cases.
  • Analyze large-scale sensor and annotation data to identify root causes and systematic errors.
  • Develop automated approaches for failure clustering and targeted data selection for human correction.
  • Build statistically sound audits and experiments to establish release acceptance criteria.
  • Communicate quality findings through clear dashboards and actionable recommendations for engineering teams.
  • Partner with labeling operations to improve annotation guidelines and reviewer consistency.

What we're looking for

  • 12+ years of industry experience.
  • Bachelor degree or proven track record for Master in statistics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, or a related quantitative field.
  • Great foundations in statistics, experimental design, sampling, hypothesis testing, and uncertainty estimation.
  • Practical experience evaluating machine learning systems and data quality.
  • Experience working on AI/LLM evaluation with proficiency in Python and SQL.
  • Understanding of precision, recall, class imbalance, selection bias, data leakage, and evaluation across significant scenario groups.
  • Strong communication and teamwork skills with experience working across engineering, research, product, or operations teams.
  • Background with autonomous driving, robotics, or computer vision, particularly camera and LiDAR data (preferred).

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