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# Data Scientist

- **Company:** Lyft Inc
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $148,000.0 - $222,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Business Analytics Applications, Data Analysis, R (Programming Language), Information Management, Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, Machine Learning, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/E2B3BFB10915434588512EBD03097860/job/

## About the Role

* Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Business Analytics and Information Management, Data Science, or related field.
 * 2 years of experience in job offered, operations research, or related occupation.

Skills:

 * Experience creating metrics and analytical tools to track and monitor growth.
 * Experience with statistics, machine learning, causal inference, data scientific forecasting, and authoring data pipelines.
 * Experience with building and evaluating optimization and inference models, and predictive modeling.
 * Experience with writing production quality computer code and using MATLAB, R, and Python.

## Description

* Partner with Engineers, Product Managers, and Business Partners to frame problems, both mathematically and within the business context.
 * Perform exploratory data analysis to gain a deeper understanding of the problem.
 * Construct and fit statistical, machine learning, or optimization models.
 * Write production modeling code; collaborate with Software Engineers to implement algorithms in production.
 * Design and run both simulated and live traffic experiments.
 * Analyze experimental and observational data; communicate findings; facilitate launch decisions.