Role Overview
The Director, Performance Analytics at May Mobility is a remote leadership position that guides the team responsible for core performance key performance indicators across autonomous vehicle systems. This role suits an experienced analytics leader who can bridge the gap between research-grade machine learning and production transit systems.
Key Responsibilities
Set and own the performance analytics strategy across simulation and synthetic data, translating it into a 12 to 24 month roadmap.
Lead, grow, and develop a team of senior performance analysts, applied machine learning analysts, and front-line managers.
Partner directly with Engineering, Product, Safety, and Operations leaders to define release criteria, performance metrics, and operational design domain expansion gates.
Drive deep decomposition of any key performance indicator by geography, time, operational design domain element, or vehicle trend and anomaly detection.
Establish measurement and experimentation standards across the company, including before and after analyses for stack changes and statistical reporting on real-world incidents.
Lead team-wide quality activities such as design and code reviews to maintain high engineering rigor.
Track and trend the technical performance of the autonomy stack in the field, surfacing root causes and prioritizing fixes with engineering.
Represent performance analytics work externally through publications, conference talks, partner reviews, and recruiting.
Requirements
Eight or more years of industry experience in performance analytics, applied statistics, or data science.
At least four years of experience managing senior individual contributors and front-line managers.
Direct domain experience in autonomous vehicles or advanced driver-assistance systems, robotics, large-scale computer vision systems, safety and performance metrics, or statistical experimentation.
Demonstrated track record of leading a team of ten or more through a major delivery such as a production launch, major model rollout, or regulatory milestone.
Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Robotics, or a related quantitative field.
Strong programming skills in Python and SQL, with working familiarity with statistical analysis and experimentation tooling.
Experience setting measurement and experimentation standards inside an engineering or product organization.
Nice to Have
Master degree or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
Prior experience at an autonomous vehicle, robotics, or hard-tech company that has deployed products to real customers.
Experience with simulation, synthetic data generation, sim-to-real transfer, or scenario-based evaluation for autonomous vehicles or robotics.
Familiarity with safety-case construction, operational design domain definition, or regulator engagement for autonomous systems.
Publications or conference contributions in top-tier machine learning, computer vision, or robotics venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICRA, or RSS.
Experience with C or C++ systems and GPU programming.
Skills and Tools
Python
SQL
C++
Computer Vision
Applied Statistics and Machine Learning
Salary and Benefits
Salary range between $217,000 and $312,000 USD.
Comprehensive healthcare suite including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans.
Health Savings and Flexible Spending Healthcare and Dependent Care Accounts.
Rich retirement benefits, including an immediately vested employer safe harbor match.
Generous paid parental leave and a phased return to work.
Flexible vacation policy in addition to paid company holidays.
Total Wellness Program providing numerous resources for overall wellbeing.
About the Company
May Mobility transforms cities through autonomous technology to create safer, greener, and more accessible worlds. Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the company develops and deploys autonomous vehicles powered by innovative Multi-Policy Decision Making technology. Since its founding in 2017, the organization has delivered more than 500,000 autonomous rides to real people globally.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should apply directly on the official May Mobility careers page.
