About the Role
In this role, with the Marketplace Earner Incentives team, you will contribute to building the next generation of models and systems aimed at addressing undersupply issues in the marketplace by effectively incentivizing drivers. You'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the lives of riders and drivers at Uber scale through end-to-end ownership of high-impact projects.
If you're excited by complex, real-world challenges-like motivating drivers in highly competitive markets with incomplete information-this is the space for you. You'll thrive by diving into problems, formulating and testing hypotheses, rapidly identifying simple solutions, and iterating quickly to drive continuous improvement.
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What You Will Do:
- Solve ambiguous, challenging business problems using data-driven approaches.
- Build and optimize models and algorithms powering earner incentives across the Uber marketplace.
- Own the problem E2E, including working with cross-functional teams to define the product and/or technical roadmap.
- Role model ML best practices by building systems that are easy to monitor, debug, maintain, and iterate on.
- Uplevel the more junior members of the team through mentorship, code and design reviews.
Basic Qualifications :
- Comfortable programming in at least one major language such as Python (preferred), Scala, Go,...
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with product and other engineering roles.
- Driven and curious.
- Can work independently.
- Either:
- 5+ years of experience building production machine learning systems at scale and a Bachelor's or equivalent in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience building production machine learning systems at scale and a Masters or equivalent in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or a related field.
- 2+ years of experience building production machine learning systems at scale and a PhD or equivalent in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Exceptional technical communication skills.
- Experience writing custom models in Pytorch or Tensorflow/Keras.
- Experience with working with large scale data processing systems like (Py)Spark and Presto/Trino.
- Experience training models at scale and building reliable data and modeling pipelines.
For Canada-based roles: The base salary range for this role is CAD$164,000 per year - CAD$182,000 per year.
You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.
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.