Senior Scientist, Fares

Job description

About the Role The Fares platform team powers the fares for all of Uber - that’s all riders, earners and eaters across the Uber and Uber Eats app. With $190B+ in gross bookings processed by the fares platform annually, we solve high impact problems which are critical to Uber’s success. As a Scientist on this team, you will leverage experiment design, exploratory data analysis, causal inference and model development to solve a wide variety of problems in domains like policy design, user experience, optimization and defect reduction.

What the Candidate Will Do Refine ambiguous questions and generate data backed hypotheses through a deep understanding of the data, systems, customers and business. Use experiments and causal inference methods to validate the hypothesis and drive business goals critical to Uber’s success. Act as a thought partner with cross-functional teams across various disciplines, including product, engineering, and operations, to drive product strategy.

Influence the product roadmap for fares and several cross-organizational teams (like maps, matching, growth, UX, Ops). Build ML models to solve complex problems and create AI agents to automate data science workflows. Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical leadership to influence decisions and product direction.

Basic Qualifications

Ph.D., M.S., or Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Machine Learning, or other quantitative fields. 3+ years of industry experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent. Experience with experiment design, exploratory data analysis, causal inference and model development. Proficient in both a data ETL language (e.g. SQL) and a scripting language (e.g. Python, R).

Preferred Qualifications

5+ years of industry experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent. Experience using statistical methodologies in platform, marketplace or consumer domains. Demonstrated ability to leverage data and systems thinking for storytelling and root cause analysis.

Excellent communication skills

able to lead initiatives across multiple areas and communicate findings with leadership.

Responsibilities

For San Francisco, CA-based roles

The base salary range for this role is USD $190,000 per year - USD $211,000 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles

For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.