Staff ML Engineer

4 weeks ago


San Francisco, California, United States Uber Full time

About the Role

There are many different types of users, opening the app in many contexts, and we need to match them to the many services and content we have available. Rider Experience drives and enables the critical trip booking funnel within the Rides app that makes up almost all of the trip transactions and contributes tremendously to business growth. We actively explore algorithmic improvements to how we help millions of riders find and discover the right products every hour to move around the world, and power smart and intuitive experiences for them.

Staff ML engineers at Uber are passionate and pragmatic technologists who are able to translate business insight and goals into well-formulated ML projects and scalable solutions to deliver impact. They are not only collaborative role models but also approachable leaders, humble teachers while also effective in helping the team in project execution. You will work with talented people in product, science, operations, and platform teams to help build and optimize our Rider Experience products. The role requires technical chops as well as strong communication & leadership skills.

What the Candidate Will Do ----

  • Defining and driving ML solutions for key strategic problems in the space of product recommendations and merchandising: help riders find and complete rides with the right products, trying to understand their intent and context while attending to Uber's business goals, marketplace conditions and efficiencies.
  • Raise the bar of ML engineering by improving best practices, producing exemplary code, documentation, automated tests and thorough and precise monitoring.
  • Provide technical leadership to a passionate, experienced, and diverse engineering team. Manage project priorities, deadlines and deliverables and design, develop, test, deploy and maintain ML solutions.
  • Partner with product owners, data scientists and business teams to translate key insights and business opportunities into technical solutions

---- Basic Qualifications ----

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
  • Strong problem-solving skills, with expertise in ML methodologies
  • Experience in applying ML, statistics, or optimization techniques to solve large-scale real-world problems (e.g. ads tech, recommender systems)
  • Industry experience in ML frameworks (e.g. Tensorflow, Pytorch, or JAX) and complex data pipelines; programming languages such as Python, Spark SQL, Presto, Go, Java

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

  • 6+ years of experience in software engineering with an emphasis on data-driven methodologies and online experimentation
  • Experience in designing and crafting scalable, reliable, maintainable and reusable ML solutions using deep-learning techniques and statistical methods.
  • Innate truth-seeker who values and produces analytic evidence and insight, as well as translating them and business goals into technical problems and solutions.
  • 2+ years of experience working in a cross-functional and/or cross-business projects, partnering with Product, Scientists, and cross-org leads to shape the team's strategies
  • Passionate about helping junior members grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers
  • Resilience, determination, ownership mindset
  • PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$218,000 per year - USD$242,000 per year. For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$218,000 per year - USD$242,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$218,000 per year - USD$242,000 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

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form-




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