Staff Data Scientist, Lyft
Machine Learning, Rider Recommendations
$172-215k
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3-5 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
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Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$172-215k
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or other quantitative fields
- M.S. and at least 6 or PhD + at least 4 years of relevant work experience
- Proven experience with building and evaluating impactful machine learning system
- Proficiency with SQL, Python and working in a production coding environment
- End-to-end experience with data, including querying, aggregation, analysis, modeling and visualization
- Experience in online experimentation and statistical analysis
- Passion for driving business impact with data
- Experience in mentoring other data scientists
What the job involves
- Data Science is at the heart of Lyft’s products and decision-making
- As a member of the Rider team, you will work in a dynamic environment, where we embrace moving quickly to build the world’s best transportation
- Data Scientists take on a variety of problems ranging from shaping critical business decisions to building algorithms that power our internal and external products
- We’re looking for passionate, driven Data Scientists to take on some of the most interesting and impactful problems in ridesharing
- As a Data Scientist specializing in Algorithms, you will develop mathematical models for the platform's core services, addressing diverse problems in optimization, prediction, machine learning, and inference
- On the Rider Recommendations team, you will collaborate with cross-functional teammates and stakeholders to develop advanced machine learning models to enhance rider experience
- By analyzing user behavior and leveraging data-driven insights, the team builds personalized recommendation systems that help deliver more relevant, engaging content and products
- The Rider Recommendations team aims to optimize recommendations, drive user satisfaction, and improve overall platform engagement
- Drive Science roadmap for Recommendations team. Be a primary participant in defining team goals and setting the priorities of projects for the team to address
- Partner with cross-functional teams to initiate, lead and drive science work on designing, developing and scaling Rider recommendations system. Define and maintain system objectives to align with the overarching goals of Rider, Marketplace and Lyft
- Prototype modeling system; collaborate with MLE and server engineers to implement algorithms in production
- Be a thought partner to senior leaders to identify opportunities, prioritize projects, and drive data informed business decisions
- Drive cross-org impact and alignment, shaping product and business strategy through data-centric presentations
- Design, implement and evaluate both simulated and live traffic experiments. Analyze experimental and observational data, communicate findings and facilitate decisions
- Advise teams on best practices. Be a thought leader and go-to expert for stakeholders and dependency teams
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members on solution design, implementation as well as lead code reviews
Our take
Lyft has aimed for consistent growth, making sure to pitch itself as a more reliable and friendly ride-sharing option than its main competitor, Uber. Uber has a greater market share and operates globally, but Lyft hopes to compete by its focus on ride-sharing over Uber's more diversified business approach and as a more rider-friendly and greener alternative to Uber.
Operating only in the USA and Canada, Lyft is in a position of being less affected by global events than Uber but also more vulnerable to local conditions. As an example, while it doesn't face the regulatory hurdles around employment rights that Uber does, it is unable to balance out the cost of the unusually expensive US auto insurance across its operations.
In 2022, Lyft acquired PBSC Urban Solutions, a bike-share equipment and technology supplier, allowing Lyft to compete in new verticals and reaffirming its commitment to green transportation. It has also trialed and launched Lyft Assisted, where drivers help passengers from their door into the car to get to medical appointments. These developments chime well with Lyft's unique selling point as a friendlier and more environmentally aware ride-sharing app.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Jun 2018
$600m
LATE VC
Mar 2018
$200m
LATE VC
Total funding: $4.9bn
Company benefits
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental health benefits
- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
- 401(k) plan to help save for your future
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
- Family building benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
John Zimmer
(Co-Founder)Originally an Analyst at Lehman Brothers, Zimmer then founded Zimride which was a private ridesharing company that pivoted into Lyft.
Logan Green
(Co-Founder)Founded Zimride, a private ridesharing company which later pivoted into Lyft.
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