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Sr Scientist – Mobility Matching Science

Sr Scientist – Mobility Matching Science

CompanyUber
LocationToronto, ON, Canada, San Francisco, CA, USA
Salary$183000 – $203000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s, Master’s, PhD
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields.
  • Minimum 1 year of industry experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent.
  • Proficient in Python/R to able to work efficiently at scale with large datasets.
  • Knowledge of experimental design and analysis (A/B, Switchbacks, Synthetic Control, Diff in Diff etc).
  • Experience with exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis and testing and model development.

Responsibilities

  • Develop data-driven business insights and work with cross-functional stakeholders to identify opportunities and recommend prioritization of product, growth and optimization initiatives.
  • Design and analyze experiments, communicating results that draw detailed and actionable conclusions.
  • Analyze and contribute to development of optimization algos and ML models for use in mobility matching.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as product, engineering and operations to drive system development end-to-end from conceptualization to final product.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Ability to work in self-guided manner.
  • Good communication skills across technical, non-technical and executive audiences.
  • Have a growth mindset; love solving ambiguous, ambitious and impactful problems.
  • Experience in optimization and/or algorithm development.
  • Experience with dashboard / data visualization tools (i.e Tableau, Mixpanel, Looker or similar).
  • Experience working on online experiments.