Senior Scientist (Econ/Analytics), Delivery Logistics

Uber

New York, NY

Full Time

Senior

183k-203k

13 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

The Delivery Logistics team builds real-world technology that powers our global marketplace. Our team of scientists works on diverse problems, including building real-time backend matching systems, creating new delightful user experiences, and serving predictions used for decision making across the marketplace. In this role, you will use your quantitative skills to generate insights, develop new models, design metrics and run experiments. Uber operates in a constantly-evolving and competitive environment, and our success requires deep understanding of our marketplace and the ability to build products that scale on a global footprint. You will work on high visibility, high impact projects which have significant impact on Uber's P+L.

Key Responsibilities

Work with a cross-functional team to build cutting-edge marketplace products.
Deploy analysis techniques such as causal inference and funnel analysis to identify our largest business opportunities.
Work alongside engineers to design and implement production solutions.
Design and analyze product experiments, and communicate findings and conclusions with stakeholders.

Requirements

PhD., M.S. or Bachelors degree in Operations Research, Statistics, Economics, Machine Learning, or other quantitative fields.
Knowledge of experimental design and analysis.
Experience with exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis and testing, and model development.
Ability to use Python to work efficiently at scale with large data sets.
Proficiency in SQL.

Nice to Have

3+ years of industry experience.
Experience in algorithm development and prototyping.
Experience designing reinforcement learning or other advanced ML algorithms.
Experience performing causal inference and other advanced econometric and statistical techniques.
Experience productionizing algorithms for real-time systems.
Outstanding communication and presentation skills.

Qualifications

Educational background in Operations Research, Statistics, Economics, Machine Learning, or related fields.

Benefits & Perks

The base salary range for this role in New York, NY is USD$183,000 per year - USD$203,000 per year.
Eligibility to participate in Uber's bonus program.
Potential for an equity award and other compensation.
Eligibility for various benefits as detailed at https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.

Working at Uber

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Uber values collaboration and its cultural identity, with offices continuing to be central to work, requiring employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office unless fully remote work is approved.

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