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Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Causal Inference

Uber

$223,000 - $248,000
Aug 21, 2025
San Francisco, CA, USA • New York, NY, USA
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Uber's Surge team aims to maintain marketplace reliability by balancing supply and demand in real-time through dynamic pricing, generating billions in annual gross bookings and significantly impacting driver earnings.

Requirements

  • PhD in relevant fields (CS, Stats, Economics, Econometrics, etc.) with a focus on Machine Learning.
  • 4+ years of experience in an ML role with an emphasis on data and experiment driven model development.
  • Expertise with Causal Inference, DML, etc...
  • Expertise in deep learning and optimization algorithms.
  • Experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.
  • Experience building and productionizing innovative end-to-end Machine Learning systems.
  • Proficiency in one or more coding languages such as Python, Java, Go, or C++.

Responsibilities

  • Build and train machine learning models with sparse data
  • Design experiments and use a variety of techniques for building causal models
  • Be a thought leader and help define roadmaps across multiple rider pricing teams
  • Build large-scale pricing optimization systems to set prices based on real-time marketplace conditions for Uber’s rides products globally
  • Build and productionize innovative end-to-end Machine Learning systems

Other

  • Strong communication skills and can work effectively with cross-functional partners.
  • Strong sense of ownership and tenacity toward hard machine-learning projects.
  • Academic background in Economics or Econometrics
  • Experience in combining observational data with experimental data for building causal models.
  • Experience designing embeddings and combining structural models and regularization techniques for dealing with sparsity.