Uber is looking to improve the efficiency and reliability of its core rideshare and delivery products by analyzing data to design and improve automated real-time pricing and incentives algorithms and platforms.
Requirements
- Knowledge of underlying mathematical foundations of statistics, machine learning, optimization, economics, and analytics.
- Experience in experimental design and analysis.
- Experience with exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis and testing, and model development.
- Ability to use Python to work efficiently at scale with large data sets.
- Proficiency in SQL.
- Experience in algorithm development and prototyping.
- Experience with productionizing algorithms for real-time systems.
Responsibilities
- Use data to understand product performance and to identify improvement opportunities.
- Build statistical, optimization, and machine learning models for a range of applications in the pricing and incentives algorithms space.
- Design and execute product experiments and interpret the results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions.
- Present findings to senior management to inform business decisions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams across disciplines such as product, engineering, operations, and marketing to drive system development end-to-end from ideation to productionization
- Experience in algorithm development and prototyping.
- Experience in pricing optimization.
Other
- Ph.D., M.S., or Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields.
- 2+ years of experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent (can be also as part of Ph.D training).
- 2+ years of industry experience.
- Well-honed communication and presentation skills.
- For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$155,000 per year - USD$172,000 per year. For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$155,000 per year - USD$172,000 per year. For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$155,000 per year - USD$172,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$155,000 per year - USD$172,000 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. You will also be eligible for various benefits.
