Uber Senior Scientist Merchant Pricing 

United States, West Virginia 

270581289

What You Will Do

You will collaborate with other scientists, product managers, and business teams to understand the challenges in our space, then tackle problems that no one else has solved yet. We expect you to deliver end-to-end solutions rather than algorithms, and you will work closely with the engineers on the team to productionize, scale, and deploy your models world-wide.

Basic Qualifications

• Ph.D. or M.S. degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or other quantitative fields.
• 4+ years of industry experience as a scientist or equivalent.
• 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.
• Solid Programming skills to prototype models in at least one of Python (preferably), R, Java
• Expert in one of the following areas: A/B experimentation design, causal inference, machine learning, economics, or optimization
• Experience of working with large dataset using Spark, Hive, HDFS is desired

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$174,000 per year - USD$193,500 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$174,000 per year - USD$193,500 per year.