# Data Scientist

**Company**: Lyft
**Location**: Seattle, WA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.

## Responsibilities:

- Collaborate with Engineers, Product Managers, and Business Partners to define problems mathematically and in a business context.

- Conduct exploratory data analysis to deepen understanding of the problem.

- Develop and apply statistical, machine learning, or optimization models.

- Write production-ready modeling code.

- Work with Software Engineers to implement algorithms in production.

- Design and execute simulated and live traffic experiments.

- Analyse experimental and observational data.

- Communicate findings effectively.

- Support launch decisions.

## Experience:

- Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or a related field.

- 2 years of experience in the job offered, Operations Research, or a related occupation.

- Experience solving unstructured and non-standard mathematical problems.

- Proficiency with end-to-end data processes, including querying, aggregation, analysis, and visualization.

- Experience with Python and other programming languages such as R and MATLAB.

## Benefits:

- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs.

- Mental health benefits.

- Family building benefits.

- Child care and pet benefits.

- 401(k) plan.

- Discretionary paid time off for salaried team members and 15 days paid time off for hourly team members, plus 12 observed holidays.

- 18 weeks of paid parental leave for biological, adoptive, and foster parents.

- Subsidized commuter benefits.

- Lyft Pink, an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program.

## Skills

### Required
- Mathematics
- Statistics
- Economics
- Python
- R
- MATLAB
- Machine Learning
- Optimization Models
- Data Analysis
- Data Visualization

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