What You Will Do- Develop forecasting models and iterate on model refinement to minimize forecasting errors by developing a deeper understanding of how critical Uber infrastructure components scale
- Derive insights from data to identify opportunities for efficiency and resource consumption reduction across the Uber infrastructure
- Use statistical modeling techniques to develop northstar metrics and KPIs to help provide a more rigorous data-driven approach to manage Uber infrastructure
- Develop simulation models for the Uber infrastructure to improve our understanding of the various cost drivers and how to best control them, while managing risk, reliability and availability
- Conduct ad-hoc analysis, reporting, and build visualizations to communicate findings to Engineering Leadership
- Present findings to senior leadership to drive business decisions
Basic Qualifications- 8+ years of working experience as an applied scientist in the tech industry
- Ph.D. or M.S. degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields, or equivalent industry experience
- Knowledge of underlying mathematical foundations of statistics, machine learning, optimization, economics, and analytics
- Advanced knowledge and experience in time-series forecasting, anomaly detection and building ML models in production
- Ability to use Python and Apache Spark to work efficiently at scale with large data sets
- Proficiency in libraries, languages, technologies and tools like R, SQL, pandas, numpy, pyspark
Preferred Qualifications- Expertise with BI tools such as Tableau
- Experience in algorithm development and prototyping
- Exposure to the infrastructure domain, particularly capacity engineering
- Exposure to financial analysis
- Exposure to large scale simulations
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