Machine Learning Engineer, Lyft
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$140.8-193k
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Ride sharing company
Open for applications
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$140.8-193k
Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- If you are a critical thinker with experience in machine learning workflows and writing reliable code, passionate about solving business problems using data and working in a dynamic, creative, and collaborative environment, we are searching for you
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or other quantitative fields or related work experience
- 3+ years of Machine Learning experience
- Proficiency in Python, Golang, or other programming language
- Nice-to-have: Experience with big data processing / distributed data pipelines and tools such as Apache Airflow and Spark
- Ability to work in distributed teams spread across time zones. (North America and Europe)
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Machine Learning Engineer to join our ETA team
- Our team builds and maintains Lyft's system responsible for generating ETAs for every ride request on our platform
- ETAs play a critical role in matching decisions, pricing estimates and overall user experience
- Low latency, high reliability and high accuracy are paramount for our success
- In this role, you will work with incredibly passionate and talented colleagues from software engineering, machine learning and data science on building rideshare experiences that delight millions of riders and drivers
- Perform data analysis and build proof-of-concept to explore and compare ML and non-ML solutions
- Be able to make effective tradeoffs between model accuracy, its productization complexity and runtime performance
- Develop statistical, machine learning, or optimization models
- Write production quality code that can scale well to serve millions of requests per day
- Participate in code reviews, design reviews, production on-call support and incident triaging process
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
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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Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
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
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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