Data Scientist, Road Safety - Autonomous Vehicles
UberSan Francisco, United StatesPosted 5 March 2026
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Data Scientist, Road Safety - Autonomous Vehicles
Department: Data Science
Team: Data Scientist
Location: San Francisco, United States
Type: Full-Time
**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**
1. Partner with cross-functional teams across product, ops and engineering as weel as external partners to measure and understand AV safety.
2. Identify interventions and product improvements that make Uber safer for everyone.
3. Present findings to technical and non-technical teams.
**Basic Qualifications**
1. Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields.
2. 2+ Years experience industry experience in Data Science
3. Strong SQL and Python programming
4. Strong applied knowledge of experiment design and analysis
5. Excellent communication skills
**Preferred Qualifications**
1. Experience in safety, risk or insurance.
2. Ability to drive clarity through analytics and metrics
3. Strong cross-functional collaboration
4. 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](https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits).
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