Senior Applied Scientist

Key Skills

Business Development, Data science techniques, Machine learning techniques, Operations, Optimization, Product Management, Python Programming, SQL, Statistics

Job Description

The Vehicles and Sustainability tech team is hiring a Senior Applied Scientist with a passion for solving new and difficult problems with data! Together we will be building the technologies and leading the product development for both Uber mobility and delivery sustainability. You'll be responsible for defining problems, designing models, implementing, coding and deploying models to Uber production systems and ensuring product success. Sitting in the driver seat to lead multi-functional partnership with engineering, product management, operations, business development and policy to get results. You will be the primary person working with other applied scientists and data scientists to help Uber meet its sustainability goals.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, deploy machine learning, statistical, optimization models into Uber production systems for a wide range of applications.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams across areas such as product, engineering, operations, and marketing to drive system development end-to-end from conceptualisation to productionization.
• Drive technical collaboration and alignment with core marketplace science and engineering teams such as pricing, matching, ranking, maps on relevant product and tech levers.
• Understanding product performance and to find opportunities within data.
• Present findings to senior management to influence business decisions.

Basic Qualifications

• Ph.D., M.S., or Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields.
• 3+ years of proven experience as an Applied Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer, Research Scientist, Software Engineer or equivalent.
• Experience in production coding and deploying ML, statistical, optimization models in real-time systems.
• Knowledge of underlying mathematical foundations of statistics, machine learning, optimization, economics, and analytics.
• Ability to use Python or other programming languages to work efficiently at scale with large data sets in production systems.
• Proficiency in SQL.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in the tech industry working on ML, AI or other production systems.
• Designing and developing algorithms to productionizing and deploying models for real-time systems.
• Thought leadership to drive multi-functional projects from conceptualisation to productionization.
• Well-honed communication and presentation skills.

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world forward, together.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber’s cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.