SeniorAppliedScientist-ShipperPricing

Schedule: Full Time Employment Job Type: Hybrid Salary Type: Salary Req #: 2537 About the Role As a Sr. Applied Scientist on the Shipper Pricing team, you will apply machine learning, casual inference and optimization techniques to develop and improve Uber Freight’s algorithms for real time bidding on shipper freight. You will have a direct impact on Uber Freight’s key business metrics and the opportunity to heavily influence technical direction for this area. You will collaborate closely with Product, Operations, Engineering, and other scientists in the department on a daily basis. What the Candidate Will Do Develop creative algorithms for optimally trading off gross revenue and net revenue when bidding on shipper freight in real time across a variety of settings, e.g., open auctions, sealed auctions, reverse waterfall auctions, etc. Prototype and evaluate solutions using statistical analysis and simulation. Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy, experimentally evaluate, and productionize these solutions. Leverage data to understand product performance and identify improvement opportunities, including analyzing potential causal factors. Establish standard methodologies for data science, including modeling, coding, analytics, and experimentation. Communicate findings and insights to senior management and cross-functional teams. Provide recommendations to assist quick product ideation and feature launch decisions. Basic Qualifications Ph. D. or M. S. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or Operations Research, or equivalent technical background with exceptional demonstrated impact 4+ years of experience in developing and deploying machine learning models and optimization algorithms in production environments, delivering measurable business impact over multiple quarters and making significant technical contributions Experience with designing, executing and analyzing experiments to measure the impact of changes to production ML models Expertise in observationa