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Data Scientist

Lyft New York, NY senior full-time

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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.

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