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Senior Scientist, Rider Personalization

Data Scientist, Data Science

New York, New York | Seattle, Washington | San Francisco, California | Sunnyvale, California

About the Role

As a Scientist, you will play a critical role in enhancing the personalization AIML experience for millions of Rider app users worldwide. You will leverage your expertise in data science and analysis to measure & optimize our recommendation systems, ultimately improving user satisfaction and achieving business growth through one of the most impactful channels.

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

What You Will Do

1. Define, build, and visualize appropriate metrics to measure user behavior and algorithm performance.
2. Explainability and observability: make data easily discoverable, understandable and actionable via simulation tooling, dashboards, etc.
3. Design, implement, and analyze experiments/quasi-experiments using appropriate statistical methodologies (basic and advanced).
4. Design and build agentic AI to automate data science workflows
5. Evangelize proactive insights that influence product or algorithm strategy (e.g. discovering trends, anomalies, and behavior patterns in our AIML systems).

Basic Qualifications

1. Experience defining, building, and visualizing appropriate metrics to measure user behavior and algorithm performance.
2. Technical depth in designing, implementing, and analyzing experiments/quasi-experiments using appropriate causal inference methodologies (basic and advanced).
3. Interest and curiosity for using agentic AI to automate data science workflows
4. Ability to evangelize proactive insights that influence product or algorithm strategy (e.g. discovering trends, anomalies, and behavior patterns in our AIML systems).

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience designing and building agentic AI to automate data science workflows
2. Expertise in causal inference modeling

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$190,000 per year - USD$211,000 per year.

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

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. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.

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