Senior ML Engineer – Real-Time Marketplace & Optimization

Uber; United States; On-site; USD 202,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Uber is seeking an exceptional ML engineer to join our Delivery Marketplace team, building large-scale systems that optimize multi-sided real-time marketplaces. You will design, develop, and productionize advanced ML models and matching algorithms powering billions of trips and impact Uber's core growth.

You will work with ML and BE engineers, product managers, and scientists to set the technical direction, deliver end-to-end ML solutions, and push cutting-edge techniques like transformers,

Qualifications

• Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelor in Computer Science, Mathematics with focus on Machine Learning, or equivalent technical background with exceptional demonstrated impact
• 3+ years experience leading the development and deployment of ML models in large-scale production environments at top-tier ML companies (e.g. 1M+ predictions/sec or 100M+ users). Track record of delivering outstanding business impact over multiple quarters.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Scala, Java, or Go
• Proficiency with large-scale data systems (e.g. Spark, Ray)/real-time processing (e.g. Flink)/microservices architectures
• Proficiency in the development, training, productionization and monitoring of ML solutions at scale, ranging from offline pipelines to online serving and MLOps
• Deep understanding of modern ML algorithms

Responsibilities

• Drive technical strategy and roadmap ownership for multiple quarters horizon and own the implementation, including platform-level architecture decisions, executive communication and alignment, technical mentorship, and cross-team technical influence
• Develop novel products for online marketplaces combining machine learning for prediction and forecasting, and optimization to improve business efficiency and the user experience
• Lead the design, development, and productionization of end-to-end ML solutions for large-scale distributed systems serving billions of trips
• Develop transformer-based models (pre-training and fine-tuning) to produce embeddings and natural language profiles that power use cases across the Marketplace.

Skills

Python/Scala/Java/Go

Large-scale distributed systems

MLOps

Education

Ph.D./M.S./B.S. in CS/Math with ML focus

Tools

Spark

Ray

Flink

Microservices

Job description

Uber is seeking an exceptional ML engineer to join our Delivery Marketplace team, building large-scale systems that optimize multi-sided real-time marketplaces. You will design, develop, and productionize advanced ML models and matching algorithms powering billions of trips and impact Uber's core growth.

You will work with ML and BE engineers, product managers, and scientists to set the technical direction, deliver end-to-end ML solutions, and push cutting-edge techniques like transformers,