Uber's AM&D team is building a hybrid marketplace that seamlessly integrates autonomous vehicles into the existing mobility and delivery ecosystem, requiring optimization across human and AV drivers for reliability, efficiency, and scalability.
Requirements
- Experience coding with one or more of Java, Scala, Go, C++, Python (or similar)
- Solid understanding and hands-on experience in backend development and distributed systems
- Background in autonomous vehicles (AV), with hands-on experience in developing, testing, or optimizing AV systems or related technologies.
- Strong understanding of algorithms and data structures, especially in the context of real-time optimization, routing, or decision-making systems.
- Experience with optimization techniques, such as linear programming, dynamic programming, or heuristic algorithms, and their application in large-scale systems.
- Knowledge of marketplace dynamics, including supply-demand matching, pricing, and incentive systems, particularly in autonomous or transportation-related domains.
- Familiarity with simulation environments and tools used for validating autonomous systems or optimizing large-scale networks.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of complex, highly scalable systems, ensuring the marketplace for autonomous vehicles operates efficiently at scale.
- Drive technical projects from inception to completion, collaborating with cross-functional partners such as product managers, data scientists, and operations teams to deliver impactful solutions.
- Develop and optimize algorithms to solve challenging problems in autonomous vehicle routing, matching, pricing, and incentive systems, directly influencing marketplace performance.
- Balance technical trade-offs between speed, performance, and quality, making informed decisions that align with both business goals and engineering best practices.
- Contribute to the creation of new features and platform capabilities, leveraging autonomous vehicle data and operational insights to build innovative solutions.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, sharing your expertise to enhance team velocity and the quality of technical output.
- Collaborate across teams to ensure seamless integration of marketplace components with the larger autonomous vehicle ecosystem, driving both immediate improvements and long-term strategic gains.
Other
- 5+ years of Software Engineering work experience
- Self motivated with a passion to learn
- Outstanding verbal and written communication and presentation skills
