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Uber Sr Scientist - Courier Pricing 
United States, West Virginia 
86671492

24.06.2024

What You Will Do
  • Develop algorithms for optimizing prices at scale.
  • Design pricing experiments and use data for model training and pricing decisions.
  • Use data to understand product performance and to identify improvement opportunities.
  • Present findings to senior management to advise on business decisions.
  • Collaborate with multi-functional teams across fields such as product, engineering, operations, and marketing to drive system development end-to-end from ideation to productization.
Basic Qualifications
  • Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathemathics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields.
  • Coding and SQL proficiency and ability to develop statistical analysis and algorithm prototyping in Python or R.
  • Design experiments and interpret the results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions across a variety of key performance indicators
Preferred Qualifications
  • 4+ years of industry experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent.
  • Excellent communication skills: able to lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams.
  • Experience communicating qualitative research methods and findings to non-qualitative researchers
  • Track record of engaging senior leadership effectively to build understanding of and consensus for the viewpoints of the team
  • Solid Programming skills to prototype models in at least one of Python (preferably), R, Java, Go, Scala
  • Expert in one of the following areas: Deep learning, ML System Design, A/B experimentation design, Causal Inference
  • Experience of working with large dataset using Spark, Hive, HDFS is desired
  • Analyze large data sets to identify behavior trends among good users and bad actors, using statistics, data mining, and machine learning techniques
  • Thought leadership to drive multi-functional projects from concept to production.