Data Scientist

Lyft•New York, NY

6d•$148,000 - $222,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Lyft is hiring a Data Scientist to partner with engineers, product managers, and business partners to frame problems in mathematical and business terms. The role involves exploring data, building statistical, machine-learning, and optimization models, and collaborating with software engineers to bring modeling algorithms into production. The Data Scientist designs simulated and live-traffic experiments, analyzes experimental and observational data, communicates findings, and helps facilitate launch decisions. This is a hybrid role requiring work in the office three days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Team members may work from anywhere for up to four weeks per year. The expected base pay range for the New York City area is $148,000–$222,000 per year; the range does not include potential equity, bonus, or benefits.

Requirements

Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Business Analytics and Information Management, Data Science, or a related field.
Two years of experience in the job offered, operations research, or a related occupation.
Experience creating metrics and analytical tools to track and monitor growth.
Experience with statistics, machine learning, causal inference, data-science forecasting, and authoring data pipelines.
Experience building and evaluating optimization and inference models, and predictive modeling.
Experience writing production-quality computer code and using MATLAB, R, and Python.

Responsibilities

Partner with engineers, product managers, and business partners to frame problems mathematically and in business context.
Perform exploratory data analysis to better understand problems.
Construct and fit statistical, machine-learning, or optimization models.
Write production modeling code and collaborate with software engineers to implement algorithms in production.
Design and run simulated and live-traffic experiments.
Analyze experimental and observational data, communicate findings, and facilitate launch decisions.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance options, with additional programs available when enrolled.
Mental health benefits.
Family-building benefits.
Child care and pet benefits.
401(k) plan.
12 observed holidays.
Discretionary paid time off for salaried team members; 15 days of paid time off for hourly team members.
18 weeks of paid parental leave for biological, adoptive, and foster parents.
Subsidized commuter benefits.
Exclusive opportunity for Lyft team members to test new benefits of the Lyft Pink Ridership Program.