Senior Scientist, Maps

Uber
1 month ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Tech stack

Java
Data analysis
Big Data
Computer Programming
Data Mining
Data Visualization
Perl
R
Hadoop Distributed File System
Hive
Python
Machine Learning
Ruby
Scala
SQL Databases
Data Logging
Diagnostic Tools
Spark
Deep Learning
Information Technology
Programming Languages

Job description

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

Requirements

Do you have experience in Spark?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathemathics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields.

  • 4+ years of industry experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent.
  • Background in at least one programming language (eg. R, Python, Java, Ruby, Scala/Spark or Perl)
  • Coding and SQL proficiency and ability to develop statistical analysis and algorithm prototyping in Python or R.
  • 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, * 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
  • Knowledge of experimental design and analysis or experience with exploratory data analysis and model development
  • 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 theoretical and applied ML skills and a strong background in mathematics and stats
  • 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

About the company

The Uber Maps team is at the forefront of advancing Uber's geospatial technologies, crucial for driving the efficiency and reliability of Uber services. We work across a diverse array of problem domains, including: curating and improving precision of location (i.e. 'Places') data, developing cutting-edge location search algorithms for each Rides pickup/dropoff and Eats delivery, building base maps and correcting map errors, as well as optimizing routes and travel time predictions, and more. These pivotal technologies are the backbone of every decision made in our marketplace, influencing dispatch and pricing strategies directly. If you're passionate about driving innovation and have relevant experiences in tech or marketplace settings, we sincerely welcome you to join our team and shape the future of Uber's geospatial technologies together. You can learn more about our team from: * Fixing Map Errors with GPS Data * What's my ETA? A Billion $ question

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