Uber Freight

Uber Freight

Senior Applied Scientist - Shipper Pricing

Chicago, IL 60607, United States · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$153k-$186kDetected 6 days ago
PythonAlgorithmsSQLMachine LearningSparkData ScienceMLOpsStatisticsResearchCommunication

About the role

  • Prototype and evaluate solutions using statistical analysis and simulation.
  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy, experimentally evaluate, and productionize these solutions.
  • You will collaborate closely with Product, Operations, Engineering, and other scientists in the department on a daily basis.

Requirements

  • Experience with designing, executing and analyzing experiments to measure the impact of changes to production ML models
  • Expertise in observational causal inference or statistical analysis
  • Proficiency in Python, SQL and Spark

Nice to have

  • Experience leading complex technical projects and influencing the scope and output of others
  • Track record of translating ambiguous business problems into technical solutions and driving multi-functional projects
  • About Uber Freight
  • Uber Freight helps companies move goods more reliably and efficiently.
  • We bring together the technology, people, and transportation capacity they need, using real‑time data from millions of shipments to guide smarter decisions.
  • Learn more at www.uberfreight.com.
  • Uber Freight is committed to protecting the privacy of our candidates.
  • We collect and process personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Compensation

  • The salary range for this role is $152,500.00 - $186,000.00 per year

Benefits

  • 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.
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