Scientist II - Marketplace (Multiple Teams)

Uber Technologies Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 161,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Equity award

401(k) plan

Benefits

Job summary

Uber Technologies Inc. is hiring a Scientist II across multiple teams including delivery logistics, membership, maps and experimentation.

You will build real-time matching, pricing and ETD models, and develop causal inference methods to grow Uber One and optimize marketplace performance. Responsibilities include designing experiments, producing actionable insights, and driving data-driven product decisions in collaboration with cross-functional partners.

Qualifications

• Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelor's degree in Economics, Statistics, ML, OR or other quantitative fields.
• 4+ years of industry experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent (or 2+ years with Ph.D.).
• Background in at least one programming language (Python, R, Java, Ruby, Scala/Spark or Perl).
• Ability to use Python or similar to work with large data sets and prototype models.
• Coding and SQL proficiency and ability to develop statistical analysis in Python or R.

Responsibilities

• Solve ambiguous business problems using data-driven approaches including ML, optimization, causal inference.
• Develop and implement statistical methodologies to improve validity and power.
• Develop data-driven insights and collaborate with cross-functional customers to prioritize initiatives.
• Design and analyze experiments and present actionable recommendations.
• Drive data-driven product development by creating logging, metrics, and diagnostic tools.
• Define how teams measure success by developing metrics with cross-functional partners.
• Own the product development cycle end-to-end from data and science aspects.

Skills

Data science

Python

SQL

Statistics

Experiment design

Causal inference

Education

Quantitative degree (PhD/MS/Bachelor)

Tools

Python

R

SQL

Scala/Spark

Job description

About the Team

We are hiring for Scientist II across multiple teams, including delivery logistics (matching), membership, maps and experimentation.

The Delivery Logistics (matching) science team is responsible for building various large-scale technologies which power our global marketplace. These include designing real-time backend matching & scheduling systems, creating new delightful user experiences via different delivery options with intelligent pricing, and serving predictions such as estimated time to delivery (ETD) used for decision making across the marketplace for various pricing systems.

The Membership science team is responsible for designing quantitative models to grow the Uber One program which offers benefits spanning across both Rides and Eats. These include causal ML models to determine the best setup of benefits, acquisition funnels and churn preventions, and novel experimentation designs and analyses to understand long-term value of membership.

The Maps science team is responsible for solving some of the largest, most challenging modeling problems in Uber, including travel time prediction (ETA), traffic prediction, route recommendation, navigation, search & ranking, pickup & dropoff recommendation, location intelligence, trip intelligence. The outputs of these models power the core trip flow experience for all products in the Rides & Eats businesses, and core internal decision systems such as pricing and matching.

The Experimentation science team is responsible for building the experimentation platform and the underlying measurement models at Uber, providing reliable, trustworthy and agile experimentation and experiment analysis to power business decisions across the entire Uber ecosystem.

What you will do

• Solve ambiguous, challenging business problems using data-driven approaches including ML, Optimization, Causal Inference.
• Develop and implement statistical / econometric methodologies to improve results validity, power and generalizability.
• Develop data-driven business insights and work with cross-functional customers to find opportunities and recommend prioritization of product, growth, and optimization initiatives.
• Design and analyze experiments, present results that provide actionable recommendations.
• Orient the teams around data-driven product development by driving the creation of logging, metrics, data visualization and diagnostic tools, and experimentation paradigms.
• Define how our teams measure success, by developing metrics, in close partnership with cross functional partners.
• Owning the product development cycle end to end from data and science aspects.

Basic Qualifications

• Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelor's degree in Economics, Statistics, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields.
• 4+ years of industry experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent (or 2+ years with Ph.D.).
• Background in at least one programming language (eg. Python, R, Java, Ruby, Scala/Spark or Perl)
• Ability to use Python or similar technologies to work efficiently with large data sets and prototype algorithms & models
• Coding and SQL proficiency and ability to develop statistical analysis and algorithm prototyping in Python or R.
• Design experiments and interpret the results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions across a variety of key performance indicators

Preferred Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Economics, Statistics, Machine Learning, Operations Research or other quantitative fields.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills: Able to lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams
• Experience in leading key technical projects and substantially influencing the scope and output of others
• Thought leadership to drive multi-functional projects from concept to production.
• Experience in large-scale marketplace algorithm design, membership / consumer growth, or experimentation platform.
• Experience with exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis and model development
• Strong programming skills to prototype models in at least one of Python (preferably), R, Java, Go, Scala

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $161,000 per year - USD $179,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.

Ready to Ride?

This isn't the kind of place where you follow a playbook - it's where you help write one. If you're driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves - we'd love to hear from you.

You may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits. Explore our benefits.

Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.

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