Uber Senior Scientist - Maps 

United States, West Virginia 

365501808

In this role, you will apply your expertise to a variety of critical tasks, including

• Developing models to address ambiguous challenges using statistical, machine learning, and optimization techniques.
• Collaborating closely with product development teams to prototype and productionize models, enhance data observability and metrics, and conduct experiments.
• Driving team roadmap and vision through identifying opportunities and building data-driven solutions.
• Delivering insightful presentations on models, solutions, and data analytics findings to stakeholders and leadership.

• Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathemathics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields.

• Coding and SQL proficiency and ability to develop statistical analysis and algorithm prototyping in Python or R.

• Design experiments and interpret the results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions across a variety of key performance indicators

• 4+ years of industry experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent.
• Experience working in a marketplace environment within the technology industry
• Proficiency in programming languages including Java and Go.
• Experience in algorithm prototyping and development.

• Excellent communication skills: able to lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams.

• Experience leading key technical projects and substantially influencing the scope and output of others.

• Experience communicating qualitative research methods and findings to non-qualitative researchers

• Track record of engaging senior leadership effectively to build understanding of and consensus for the viewpoints of the team

• Solid theoretical and applied ML skills and a strong background in mathematics and stats