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Uber Staff Applied Scientist - Capacity & Efficiency Engineering 
United States, West Virginia 
953777974

24.06.2024
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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