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Senior Applied Scientist
Company | Uber Freight |
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Location | Chicago, IL, USA |
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Salary | $142700 – $174050 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Machine Learning, Operations Research, Economics, Computer Science, or another related field
- 5 years of related experience
Responsibilities
- Develop creative solutions and build prototypes to business problems using algorithms based on machine learning, causal inference, statistics, and optimization.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to productionize these solutions and create a lasting impact.
- Drive clarity and solve ambiguous, challenging business problems using data-driven approaches, with an emphasis on understanding causal relationships when applicable.
- Propose and guide robust frameworks of data analysis to drive business insights and inform decision-making.
- Establish standard methodologies for data science, including modeling, coding, analytics, and experimentation.
- Leverage data to understand product performance and identify improvement opportunities, including analyzing potential causal factors.
- Design product experiments and interpret results to draw detailed and impactful conclusions.
- Communicate findings and insights to senior management and cross-functional teams.
- Provide recommendations to assist quick product ideation and feature launch decisions.
- Build intelligent data-driven products to provide the best user experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s or Ph.D. in Statistics, Machine Learning, Operations Research, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field
- Strong knowledge of experimental design and analysis
- Expertise in causal inference, statistical analysis and testing, and model development
- Ability to use a programming language like Python or R to work efficiently at scale with large data sets
- Proficiency in SQL, Hive, and Spark for data manipulation and analysis