Uber Senior Scientist Maps 

United States, West Virginia 

612282549

What You Will Do

1. Develop data-driven business insights and work with cross-functional customers to find opportunities and recommend prioritization of product, growth, and optimization initiatives.
2. Build statistical, optimization, and machine learning models for strategic insights as well as in production enhancements to the membership program.
3. Design and analyze experiments, present results that provide actionable recommendations.
4. Orient our teams around data-driven product development by driving the creation of logging, metrics, data visualization and diagnostic tools, and experimentation paradigms.
5. Define how our teams measure success, by developing metrics, in close partnership with cross functional partners.

- - - - Basic Qualifications ----

1. Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathemathics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields.
2. 4+ years of industry experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent (or 2+ years with Ph.D.).
3. Background in at least one programming language (eg. R, Python, Java, Ruby, Scala/Spark or Perl)
4. Coding and SQL proficiency and ability to develop statistical analysis and algorithm prototyping in Python or R.
5. Ability to use Python, SQL, R or similar technologies to work efficiently with large data sets
6. Design experiments and interpret the results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions across a variety of key performance indicators

- - - - Preferred Qualifications ----

1. Excellent communication skills: able to lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams
2. Experience leading key technical projects and substantially influencing the scope and output of others
3. Knowledge of experimental design and analysis or experience with exploratory data analysis and model development
4. Experience communicating qualitative research methods and findings to non-qualitative researchers
5. Track record of engaging senior leadership effectively to build understanding of and consensus for the viewpoints of the team
6. Solid theoretical and applied ML skills and a strong background in mathematics and stats
7. Solid Programming skills to prototype models in at least one of Python (preferably), R, Java, Go, Scala
8. Expert in one of the following areas: Deep learning, ML System Design, A/B experimentation design, Causal Inference
9. Experience of working with large dataset using Spark, Hive, HDFS is desired
10. Analyze large data sets to identify behavior trends among good users and bad actors, using statistics, data mining, and machine learning techniques
11. Thought leadership to drive multi-functional projects from concept to production

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$183,000 per year - USD$203,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link .