Uber Senior ML Engineer Rider Experience 

United States, West Virginia 

552456425

About the Role

We are focused on leveraging machine learning to enhance rider experience through personalized recommendations and tailored services. Key areas we are exploring include:

1. Intent modeling
2. Balancing relevance and discovery
3. Rider and contextual targeting
4. Joint optimization with our marketplace

What You'll Do

• Defining and driving ML solutions for key strategic problems in the space of product recommendations and merchandising: help riders find and complete rides with the right products, understanding their ride context and modeling their intent while attending to Uber’s business goals, marketplace conditions and efficiencies.
• Provide technical leadership to a passionate, experienced, and diverse engineering team. Manage project priorities, deadlines and deliverables and design, develop, test, deploy and maintain ML solutions. Classification, regression, and multi-task learning are in our toolbox.
• Raise the bar of ML engineering by improving best practices, producing exemplary code, documentation, automated tests and thorough & precise monitoring, and applying model debugging & interpretation techniques.
• Partner with product owners, data scientists and business teams to translate key insights and business opportunities into technical solutions

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
• 3+ years of experience in software engineering with an emphasis on data-driven methodologies, deep learning, and online experimentation
• Strong problem-solving skills, with expertise in ML methodologies
• Experience in applying ML, statistics, or optimization techniques to solve large-scale real-world problems (e.g. ads tech, recommender systems)
• Industry experience in ML frameworks (e.g. Tensorflow, Pytorch, or JAX) and complex data pipelines; programming languages such as Python, Spark SQL, Presto, Go, Java

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering specializing in applied ML methods
• Experience in designing and crafting scalable, reliable, maintainable and reusable ML solutions using deep-learning techniques and statistical methods.
• Innate truth-seeker who values and produces analytic evidence and insight, as well as translating them and business goals into technical problems and solutions.
• 1+ years of experience working in a cross-functional and/or cross-business projects, partnering with Product, Scientists, and cross-org leads to shape the team’s strategies
• Passionate about helping junior members grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers
• Resilience, determination, ownership mindset
• PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 per year.