Uber Senior Scientist Maps 

United States, West Virginia 

405130667

Basic Qualitifactions

• Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathemathics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields.
• 4+ years of industry experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent.
• Background in at least one programming language (eg. R, Python, Java, Ruby, Scala/Spark or Perl)
• Coding and SQL proficiency and ability to develop statistical analysis and algorithm prototyping in Python or R.
• Ability to use Python, SQL, R or similar technologies to work efficiently with large data sets
• Design experiments and interpret the results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions across a variety of key performance indicators

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• Knowledge of experimental design and analysis or experience with exploratory data analysis and model development
• 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
• Solid Programming skills to prototype models in at least one of Python (preferably), R, Java, Go, Scala
• Expert in one of the following areas: Deep learning, ML System Design, A/B experimentation design, Causal Inference
• Experience of working with large dataset using Spark, Hive, HDFS is desired
• Analyze large data sets to identify behavior trends among good users and bad actors, using statistics, data mining, and machine learning techniques
• Thought leadership to drive multi-functional projects from concept to production

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