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2025 PhD Software Engineer Intern – Risk
| Company | Uber |
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| Location | Sunnyvale, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $67 – $67 |
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| Type | Internship |
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| Degrees | PhD |
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| Experience Level | Internship |
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Requirements
- Currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program studying machine learning, data mining, artificial intelligence, constrained optimization, statistics, or a related quantitative field
- Candidates must have at least one semester/quarter of their education left following the internship
- Knowledge of underlying technical foundations of statistics, machine learning, optimization, and systems, etc.
- Experience in one or more object-oriented languages, including C++, Java, Python, or Go
Responsibilities
- Drive exciting, ambitious, previously unsolved projects from end to end
- Thrive in ambiguous product requirements
- Collaborate with product managers and data scientists closely
- Make data driven decisions, with exceptional execution
- Be motivated to own projects and push them forward with independence
- Have a passion to make Uber better for our customers
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business partners
- Experience in simplifying/converting business problems into technical problems
- Research mentality with a bias towards action to structure a project from idea to experimentation to prototype to implementation
- Experience presenting at industry recognized academic conferences and a good publishing record
