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title: Senior Scientist Marketplace at Uber in New York, NY
description: Uber is hiring for the Senior Scientist Marketplace role in New York, NY. Pays
  $190K–$211K per year. See the full description and apply.
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| **Company** | Uber |
| **Location** | New York, United States |
| **Salary** | $190K/yr - $211K/yr |
| **Type** | Full Time |
| **Posted** | Sep 23, 2026 |
## Description

#### **About the Role of Science**

End-to-end product development from a data, analytics, modeling, and experimentation perspective. Specifically, formulating ambiguous business problems, prototyping various machine learning & optimization & causal inference & marketplace dynamics models, producing data insights, and designing & analyzing experiments.

We are building the future of Uber's mobility and logistics platforms. Our teams drive innovation across critical areas including:

- A central pillar of Uber’s delivery products, serving as the "brain" of the operation. We drive every decision that enables orders to go from point A to point B — from Uber Eats & Grocery, to newer verticals like Uber Direct and Connect. We’re responsible for running an efficient marketplace with dispatch & pricing decisions.
- We enhance user experience and growth for Uber One, a fast-growing program providing members with exclusive benefits, best prices, and priority across the platform.

#### **What you will do**

- Solve ambiguous, challenging business problems using data-driven approaches including ML, Optimization, Causal Inference.
- Develop and implement statistical/econometric methodologies to improve results validity, power and generalizability.
- Develop data-driven business insights and work with cross-functional customers to find opportunities and recommend prioritization of product, growth, and optimization initiatives.
- Design and analyze experiments, and present results that provide actionable recommendations.
- Orient the teams around data-driven product development by driving the creation of logging, metrics, data visualization, and diagnostic tools, and experimentation paradigms.
- Define how our teams measure success, by developing metrics, in close partnership with cross-functional partners.
- Own the product development cycle end to end from data and science aspects.

#### **Basic Qualifications**

- Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelor's degree in Economics, Statistics, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields.
- 4+ years of industry experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent (or 2+ years with Ph.D.).
- Background in at least one programming language (eg. Python, R, Java, Ruby, Scala/Spark or Perl)
- Ability to use Python or similar technologies to work efficiently with large data sets and prototype algorithms & models
- Coding and SQL proficiency and ability to develop statistical analysis and algorithm prototyping in Python or R.
- Design experiments and interpret the results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions across a variety of key performance indicators

#### **Preferred Qualifications**

- Ph.D. in Economics, Statistics, Machine Learning, Operations Research or other quantitative fields.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills: Able to lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams
- Experience in leading key technical projects and substantially influencing the scope and output of others
- Thought leadership to drive multi-functional projects from concept to production.
- Experience in large-scale marketplace algorithm design, membership / consumer growth, or experimentation platform.
- Experience with exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis and model development
- Strong programming skills to prototype models in at least one of Python (preferably), R, Java, Go, Scala

For New York City, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $190,000 per year - USD $211,000 per year.

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.
## Skills

- Influencing
- Quantitative Analysis
- Perl
- Go
- Data Visualization
- Business Analytics
- Prototyping
- Logging
- Python
- R
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- User Experience
- Statistical Analysis
- Prioritization
- Algorithms
- Pleadings
- SQL
- Apache Spark
- Causal Inference
- Statistics
- Collaboration
- Algorithm Design
- New Product Development
- Thought Leadership
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Diagnostics
- Leadership
- Scala
- Machine Learning Model Development
- Communication
- Machine Learning
- Java
- Ruby
## Benefits

- 401(k) Plans

## How to Apply

[Apply for this position](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/senior-scientist-marketplace-at-uber-01a0d859-2926-7d0d-a326-c6548be02ff2?utm_source=ai_markdown)

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