# Data Scientist

**Company**: Lyft
**Location**: New York, NY
**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 and work with Software Engineers to implement algorithms.

- Design and execute simulated and live traffic experiments.

- Analyse experimental and observational data, communicate findings, and inform launch decisions.

## Experience:

- Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Business Analytics and Information Management, Data Science, or a related field.

- 2 years of experience in the job offered, operations research, or a related occupation.

## Skills:

- Experience creating metrics and analytical tools to track and monitor growth.

- Experience with statistics, machine learning, causal inference, data scientific forecasting, and authoring data pipelines.

- Experience with building and evaluating optimization and inference models, and predictive modeling.

- Experience with writing production-quality computer code and using MATLAB, R, and Python.

## 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.

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

- Subsidized commuter benefits.

- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program.

## Skills

### Required
- statistics
- machine learning
- causal inference
- data scientific forecasting
- MATLAB
- R
- Python

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