below marketmost similar roles pay hereabove market
This role pays more than
68%
of similar roles. Most pay
$126,800–$204,800
— the blue band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$185k
versus about
$166k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Lyft
Lyft is a transportation network company offering ride-hailing services across the US and Canada.
Lyft currently has
37 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$148,000–$185,000
across 32 roles with salary data.
The Data Scientist will join the team to partner with engineers, product managers, and business partners to frame problems mathematically and within a business context. The role involves performing exploratory data analysis, constructing and fitting statistical, machine learning, or optimization models, and writing production modeling code. Key responsibilities include collaborating with software engineers to implement algorithms, designing and running simulated and live traffic experiments, and analyzing experimental and observational data to facilitate launch decisions. Candidates must possess skills in statistics, machine learning, causal inference, data scientific forecasting, and authoring data pipelines. The position requires experience building optimization and inference models, predictive modeling, and creating metrics to track growth. Technical proficiency in MATLAB, R, and Python is required to develop production quality computer code.
What does a Data Scientist earn in New York?
Median $173200 from 47 postings across 18 companies.
Python
SQL
R
Machine Learning
Mathematical Optimization
Statistical Inference
Causal Inference
Econometrics
Operations Research
Data Science
Control Theory
Data Analysis
Logging Infrastructure
Algorithmic Prototyping
Python
R
SQL
Java
Scala
C#
Machine Learning
Statistical Modeling
Data Engineering
Data Pipelines
Distributed Systems
Data Mining
Causal Inference
Model Evaluation
Reporting Tools
Data Structures
Optimization Techniques