Data Scientist III - Spot Pricing

Uber Freight•San Francisco, CA

21h•$99,000 - $180,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking an exceptionally passionate person to join our Marketplace Data Science team. As a Data Scientist focused on Spot Pricing, you will be driving the evaluation and development of the real-time pricing engine we use to bid on spot freight put up for auction by shippers. You will need to collaborate effectively with product managers, engineers, operations, 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 experimental design and non experimental causal inference techniques
Strong presentation skills
Experience working in a digital marketplace and/or dynamic pricing domain

Responsibilities

Perform analysis to understand emerging trends in the digital marketplace
Perform statistical analysis to estimate the impact of changes to our spot pricing algorithms before deployment
Design, execute and analyze A/B and marketplace experiments to directly measure the business impact of changes to our pricing algorithms on both financial and operational 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