Data Scientist III - Carrier Fraud

Uber Freight•Chicago, IL

5d•$99,000 - $151,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking an exceptionally passionate person to join our Marketplace Data Science team. As a Data Scientist focused on Carrier Fraud, you will be driving the development and evaluation of metrics, products and models to minimize fraud within Uber Freight’s digital marketplace. You will need to collaborate effectively with product managers, engineers, operations, and business stakeholders, and other members of the Data Science team to solve problems, create efficiencies, and successfully deliver against high organizational standards.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics or related field
3 years of related experience
Experience with SQL, Python

Nice To Haves

Masters with 3 years of experience or Bachelors with 5 years of relevant experience
Experience with orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow)
Experience with Spark
Advanced knowledge of experiment design and statistical methods
Strong presentation skills
Experience working in a digital marketplace and/or fraud domain

Responsibilities

Perform data analysis to investigate patterns underlying fraud incidents
Perform statistical analysis to estimate the impact of new fraud prevention techniques before deployment
Design, execute and analyze A/B and marketplace experiments in order to directly measure the business impact of new fraud prevention products on a variety of metrics
Work efficiently at scale with large data sets
Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as product, engineering, and operations to drive system development end-to-end from conceptualization to productization