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, trying to understand their intent and context while attending to Uber’s business goals, marketplace conditions and efficiencies.
- Raise the bar of ML engineering by improving best practices, producing exemplary code, documentation, automated tests and thorough and precise monitoring.
- 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.
- Partner with product owners, data scientists and business teams to translate key insights and business opportunities into technical solutions
Basic Qualifications
- MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering with an emphasis on data-driven methodologies 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,search, recommendation systems, ranking/retrieval, or representation learning)
- 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
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering with an emphasis on data-driven methodologies and online experimentation
- Background in search, recommendation systems, ranking/retrieval, or representation learning is highly desirable.
- Hands on experience with Deep Neural Networks, Transformers, etc
- Innate truth-seeker who values and produces analytic evidence and insight, as well as translating them and business goals into technical problems and solutions.
- 2+ 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
- 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.