Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendations

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San Francisco, CA
Senior level
Transportation
The Role
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you'll collaborate across teams to develop and launch machine learning models that impact Lyft's core services, improving user experiences through advanced data solutions.
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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

With over half a billion rides and counting, Lyft is solving hard problems in a rapidly growing domain with a lot of data and creative solutions in Marketplace, Mapping, Fraud, Trust & Safety, Growth and beyond. While traditional approaches to optimization and problem decomposition are sufficient to disrupt transportation, building next-generation platform for low-cost, ultra-immersive transportation to improve people’s lives warrants modern ML utilizing peta-byte scale data. Our highly motivated Machine Learning Engineers work on these challenging problems and define solutions to directly impact various aspects of our core business.

If you are a critical thinker with experience in machine learning workflows, passionate about solving business problems using data and working in a dynamic, creative, and collaborative environment, we are searching for you. 

As a machine learning engineer, you will be developing and launching the algorithms that power the platform’s core services and impactful products. Compared to similarly-sized technology companies, the set of problems that we tackle is incredibly diverse. They cut across transportation, economics, forecasting, mapping, safety, personalization, and adaptive control. We are hiring motivated experts in each of these fields. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about solving problems with data, building reliable ML systems, and is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and collegial environment.

Responsibilities:

  • Partner with Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Business Partners to apply machine learning for business and user impact
  • Perform data analysis and build proof-of-concept to explore and propose ML solutions to both new and existing problems
  • Develop statistical, machine learning, or optimization models
  • Write production quality code to launch machine learning models at scale
  • Evaluate machine learning systems against business goal

Experience:

  • B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or other quantitative fields or related work experience
  • 5+ years of Machine Learning experience
  • Passion for building impactful machine learning models leveraging expertise in one or multiple fields.
  • Proficiency in Python, Golang, or other programming language
  • Excellent communication skills and fluency in English
  • Strong understanding of Machine Learning methodologies, including supervised learning, forecasting, recommendation systems, reinforcement learning, and multi-armed bandits

Benefits:

  • Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
  • Mental health benefits
  • Family building benefits
  • Child care and pet benefits
  • 401(k) plan to help save for your future
  • In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
  • 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
  • Subsidized commuter benefits
  • Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program

Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $162,8000 - $203,500. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
22,282 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Lyft was founded in 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation, and is available to approximately 95 percent of the United States population as well as select cities in Canada. Lyft is committed to effecting positive change for our cities by offsetting carbon emissions from all rides, and by promoting transportation equity through shared rides, bikeshare systems, electric scooters, and public transit partnerships.

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