Scientist II - Reservations

Uber Uber · Consumer · Seattle, WA · Data Science

Scientist II role focused on improving the Reserve product by transitioning from heuristic-based decision making to building machine learning models for real-time decisions, enhancing driver and rider experience, and piloting new use cases. The role involves designing roadmaps, running large-scale experiments, and analyzing business/user behavior trends.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work together with Product, Operations, and Engineering partners to design a roadmap of features and initiatives as well as the long-term team strategy
  2. Run large scale experiments, observational studies, deep dives into business and user behavior trends and present findings to technical and non-technical audiences

Skills

Required

  • Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields.
  • 2+ years of industry experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent (not required with Ph.D.).
  • Proficiency in programming languages (Python, Java, Scala) and ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-Learn), underpinned by a solid grasp of MLOps practices, including design documentation, testing, and source code management with Git.
  • Good understanding of experimental design and analysis (e.g., A/B and market-level experiments), causal inference.
  • Good business and product sense: delight in shaping vague questions into well-defined analyses and success metrics that drive business decisions.

Nice to have

  • Ability to drive clarity on the best analytic solution for a business objective
  • Expertise in causal inference, A/B testing designs, multivariate testing, and other advanced analytical methods.
  • Experience in designing highly scalable, resilient systems for customer-facing applications and familiarity with optimization techniques.
  • Propose, design, and analyze large scale online experiments and interpret the results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams across disciplines such as product, engineering, operations, and marketing to drive system development end-to-end from ideation to productionization

What the JD emphasized

  • building machine learning models to make key decisions in real time

Other signals

  • building machine learning models to make key decisions in real time
  • improve the experience to consistently deliver high reliability
  • driving efficiency, improving our unit economics and growing adoption and retention