Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Rider Pricing & Incentives

About the Team

Uber Marketplace is at the heart of Ubers business with Rider Pricing & Incentives playing a critical role by setting prices and targeting promotions for Uber riders. Our teams mission is to drive revenue growth ridership growth and Ubers profitability through advanced machine learning and data science. We build reliable scalable platforms that optimize rider pricing real-time and offline promotions including discounts and personalized messaging.

The Rider Pricing & Incentives team is a fast-moving high-opportunity space where youll have the chance to make a significant impact on the business. Youll take ownership of one key pillar of the promotions or rider pricing domain and lead the technical direction for improving our pricing algorithms promotion algorithms and models. You will work across ML serving and optimization system components and set technical direction for modeling best practices across model building evaluation and deployment.

About the Role

In this role youll apply advanced machine learning technologies-including deep learning generative AI for personalized communications causal modeling and reinforcement learning-to optimize pricing strategies and promotional systems. You will also work with serving infrastructure and product teams to design and evolve the rider pricing and promotions systems to support new product and algorithm evolutions promotion use cases and drive Ubers top-line rider and revenue growth.

What Youll Do

• Lead a group of SWEs and MLEs working on rider pricing and promotions to develop and implement new machine learning and optimization techniques powering billions of rides around the world and helping riders achieve their mobility needs.
• Improve the performance of models and algorithms powering pricing algorithms and promotion targeting.
• Own the problem E2E including working with cross-functional teams to define the product andor technical roadmap.
• Mentor more junior team members by role modeling ML best practices. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and drive Ubers ridership and revenue growth. Help Ubers end-users by making mobility options accessible and affordable.

Basic Qualifications

• Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field with 7 years of full-time engineering experience.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages e.g. C C Java Python Go.
• Experience with machine learning and optimization algorithms.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field with 2 years of full-time engineering experience.
• Experience solving complex business problems by translating them into machine learning and optimization solutions.
• Familiarity with large-scale data systems e.g. Spark Hive and experience building production-ready algorithmic systems.
• Strong background in deep learning generative AI causal modeling and reinforcement learning.

For San Francisco CA-based roles The base salary range for this role is USD232000 per year - USD258000 per year.

For Sunnyvale CA-based roles The base salary range for this role is USD232000 per year - USD258000 per year.

For all US locations you will be eligible to participate in Ubers bonus program and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401k plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link httpsjobs.uber.comenbenefitshttpsjobs.uber.comenbenefits.

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Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Ubers cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles such as those based at green-light hubs employees are expected to be in-office for 100 of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.