Data Scientist - Algorithms, MappingActive

The opportunity

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.

What you'll do

  • How do we accurately predict acute and chronic traffic conditions?

  • How do we improve the recommendations of our routing algorithms?

  • How do we keep our travel estimation promises to our riders and drivers?

  • How do we benchmark and measure the success of our services?

  • Own the complete lifecycle of algorithmic solutions from problem formulation,: data exploration, and feature engineering to deployment, monitoring, and iteration

  • Prioritize and lead deep dives into our data to uncover new product and business opportunities

What they're looking for

  • Partner closely with Engineering to build and scale production-grade ML: systems, real-time inference services, batch pipelines, and feature stores
  • Design, implement, and analyze different types of experiments, and facilitate: and foster data-driven and informed decision making and prioritization
  • Drive scientific excellence by introducing modern techniques in ML,: optimization, reinforcement learning, or graph-based methods to unlock new product capabilities
  • Establish metrics that measure the health of our products, as well as rider and driver experience