Locality expert

Responsibilities

Below are the set of responsibilities that this team would be required to perform:

• Do market research around trends in Auto industry.
• P0:Speed limits, EVCS.
• P1:Other ADAS.
• Work with the policy team on the policy creation for these countries and provide local context as needed.
• Do meta QC and random checks to figure out quality issues.
• Create a country metric for quality and conduct in-country drives to provide feedback and data to client working groups.
• Be an owner for the country for queries from any other team as well for other basemap features other than Transit.
• Curate region-specific implicit/statutory speed limits and rules (for e.g., arterials in a town should be 20 vs. a state-wide rule of 30).
• Research news articles, notices from govt./highway construction/other agencies, when there are scheduled maintenance/repair.
• Identify edge cases (like unique sign variations, urban area polygon logic, etc.) that might get missed. Similarly, identify gaps in algorithms.
• Provide inputs to prioritize issues more proactively, and with local knowledge (i.e. which missing signs are causing the most problems, what errors are most egregious for users).
• Support proactive outreach with govt. and transit authorities to understand upcoming changes, systematic issues with our data, etc. (To be disambiguated with Outreach and Partnerships, who will own data collection/feeds).
• Support the partnerships and other outreach teams in local knowledge and context as needed.
• Consult on all sign types to provide local context and understanding and interpretations of various road signs.
• Assist with quality assurance and country certification processes to ensure that the highest quality level is reached and maintained in the assigned country.

Experience / Skills