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Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Pricing & Incentives

Uber

Sunnyvale, CA
Full Time
Senior
223k-248k
8 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

The role will be within the pricing and incentives domain in Uber's marketplace team. The team charter spans incentive allocation and optimization to balance the market and optimize revenue, dynamic trip pricing based on marketplace conditions. The role will provide an opportunity to work on some of the most strategic marketplace problems at Uber scale that impact Uber's global business very directly.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work with product, data science, and engineering leadership to shape the technical roadmap and problem formulations for the team.
  • Leverage algorithmic knowledge in machine learning, optimization, and statistics to design robust engineering solutions to positively impact Uber's business.
  • Shape the Machine Learning Engineer role and uplevel MLE talents in the organization.
  • Be responsible for the end-to-end product - ML model pipeline and system design, implementation, A/B testing, and rollout.
  • Work with the team to productionize solutions at scale.

Requirements

  • PhD or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field.
  • 4+ years of full-time Machine Learning Engineering work experience in leveraging machine learning, statistics, or optimization to build models in production.
  • Collaborative and able to work well with, and contribute to, a team.

Nice to Have

  • Experience building algorithms with large scale data.
  • Track record of building large-scale, highly-available systems for both batch and streaming.
  • Deep domain expertise and recognition as a specialist in areas like reinforcement learning, personalization, or deep learning.
  • Experience in combining observational data with experimental data for building causal models.
  • Experience working on large scale Machine Learning platforms.

Qualifications

  • Educational background with a PhD or equivalent in relevant fields.

Benefits & Perks

  • For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range is USD$223,000 to USD$248,000 per year.
  • For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range is USD$223,000 to USD$248,000 per year.
  • Eligibility to participate in Uber's bonus program, and potential equity awards and other compensation.
  • 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. The company also considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, and provides accommodations for disabilities or special needs upon request.

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Job Details

Posted AtJul 16, 2025
Job CategoryData Science
Salary223k-248k
Job TypeFull Time
ExperienceSenior

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About Uber

Website

uber.com

Location

Sunnyvale, CA

Industry

Taxi and Ridesharing Services

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