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Senior Scientist, Rider Personalization

Uber
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/6/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/31/2026
About The Role

As a Scientist, you will play a critical role in enhancing the personalization AIML experience for millions of Rider app users worldwide. You will leverage your expertise in data science and analysis to measure & optimize our recommendation systems, ultimately improving user satisfaction and achieving business growth through one of the most impactful channels.

What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

What the You Will Do

  • Define, build, and visualize appropriate metrics to measure user behavior and algorithm performance.
  • Explainability and observability: make data easily discoverable, understandable and actionable via simulation tooling, dashboards, etc.
  • Design, implement, and analyze experiments/quasi-experiments using appropriate statistical methodologies (basic and advanced).
  • Design and build agentic AI to automate data science workflows
  • Evangelize proactive insights that influence product or algorithm strategy (e.g. discovering trends, anomalies, and behavior patterns in our AIML systems).

Basic Qualifications

  • Experience defining, building, and visualizing appropriate metrics to measure user behavior and algorithm performance.
  • Technical depth in designing, implementing, and analyzing experiments/quasi-experiments using appropriate causal inference methodologies (basic and advanced).
  • Interest and curiosity for using agentic AI to automate data science workflows
  • Ability to evangelize proactive insights that influence product or algorithm strategy (e.g. discovering trends, anomalies, and behavior patterns in our AIML systems).

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience designing and building agentic AI to automate data science workflows
  • Expertise in causal inference modeling

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$190,000 per year - USD$211,000 per year. For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$190,000 per year - USD$211,000 per year. For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$190,000 per year - USD$211,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$190,000 per year - USD$211,000 per year. For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.

Salary : $190,000 - $211,000

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