Senior Data Scientist, Fares — Impactful AI & Experimentation

Uber Technologies Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Equity award

401(k) plan

Benefits

Job summary

Uber Technologies Inc. is seeking an experienced Data Scientist to advance the Fares platform by designing experiments, performing exploratory data analysis, and building ML models that influence product direction across rides, Uber Eats, and related services.

The role requires strong collaboration with product, engineering, and operations teams to drive policy design, user experience improvements, and defect reduction initiatives.

Qualifications

• Ph.D., M.S., or Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Machine Learning, or other quantitative fields.
• 3+ years of industry experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent.
• Experience with experiment design, exploratory data analysis, causal inference and model development.
• Proficient in both a data ETL language (e.g. SQL) and a scripting language (e.g. Python, R).

Responsibilities

• Refine ambiguous questions and generate data backed hypotheses through a deep understanding of the data, systems, customers and business.
• Use experiments and causal inference methods to validate the hypothesis and drive business goals critical to Uber’s success.
• Act as a thought partner with cross-functional teams across various disciplines, including product, engineering, and operations, to drive product strategy.
• Influence the product roadmap for fares and several cross-organizational teams (like maps, matching, growth, UX, Ops).
• Build ML models to solve complex problems and create AI agents to automate data science workflows.
• Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical leadership to influence decisions and product direction.

Skills

Experiment design

Causal inference

Data analysis

Communication

Education

Ph.D./M.S./Bachelors in CS/Statistics/ML

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Job description

Uber Technologies Inc. is seeking an experienced Data Scientist to advance the Fares platform by designing experiments, performing exploratory data analysis, and building ML models that influence product direction across rides, Uber Eats, and related services.

The role requires strong collaboration with product, engineering, and operations teams to drive policy design, user experience improvements, and defect reduction initiatives.