Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Uber

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Sunnyvale, CASan Francisco, CA
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7 days ago
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Uber Technologies, Inc. is the world’s largest, San Francisco-based mobile technology platform facilitating on-demand ride-hailing, food delivery (Uber Eats), and freight transportation across approximately 70 countries.

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TL;DR · Senior Machine Learning Engineer

The Sr Machine Learning Engineer joins the Deliverability team within Merchant Optimization to manage the critical gating layer for every delivery transaction. You will drive the technical vision and productionization of core machine learning systems that determine if a merchant can deliver to an eater in real time. Key responsibilities include architecting high-throughput solutions for delivery zone optimization, designing and training models to balance conversion and fulfillment efficiency, and engineering scalable inference pipelines and feature stores. You will utilize Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, and LightGBM, while potentially leveraging Spark, Ray, Flink, and geospatial libraries like H3 or S2 Cell. This role solves complex marketplace challenges by optimizing merchant delivery coverage and conducting online A/B testing to improve platform selection and reliability.

What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in California?

Median $235750 from 200 postings across 34 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Architect and translate marketplace challenges into high-throughput, large-scale ML solutions for delivery zone optimization.
  • Develop, evaluate, and refine ML models to optimize merchant delivery coverage and fulfillment efficiency.
  • Engineer and operate scalable ML inference pipelines, feature stores, and automated retraining workflows.
  • Lead data-driven investigations to diagnose marketplace inefficiencies and execute online A/B testing.
  • Use telemetry and data analysis to drive core business metrics across the delivery marketplace.
  • Define cross-platform ML standards and align technical roadmaps with Product and Infrastructure teams.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of hands-on professional experience designing, training, and operating production ML models at scale.
  • Advanced proficiency in Python and mainstream machine learning frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Scikit-learn.
  • Solid theoretical foundation in classic and modern ML algorithms, including gradient-boosted trees, deep neural networks, and statistical modeling.
  • Proven record of taking complex ML systems end-to-end from initial problem formulation to large-scale production deployment.
  • Practical experience developing automated feature engineering pipelines, using feature stores, model monitoring platforms, and executing online A/B testing.
  • PhD candidate (preferred).
  • 3+ years of industry experience (preferred).
  • Experience with geospatial libraries, Graph Neural Networks, distributed data processing systems, or two-sided marketplace optimization (preferred).

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