Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Consumer Incentives

Uber

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Sunnyvale, CASan Francisco, CANew York, NYSeattle, WA
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TL;DR · Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Consumer Incentives

The Sr Staff Machine Learning Engineer- Consumer Incentives joins the Consumer Incentives team to drive growth and profitability across grocery and food business areas. In this technical leadership role, you will define the long-term machine learning vision, architecture, and roadmap for personalizing incentives and understanding their incremental impact on consumer behavior. You will lead initiatives spanning problem formulation, offline evaluation, experimentation, and production deployment. Key responsibilities include designing models for optimization under operational constraints and architecting scalable end-to-end systems for data pipelines, training, and monitoring. You will utilize deep learning, constrained optimization, reinforcement learning, foundation models, and generative AI. The role requires connecting scientific rigor to business outcomes by balancing short-term results with long-term consumer value through causal measurement and robust experimental design.

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What you'll do

  • Define the long-term ML vision, architecture, and technical roadmap for Consumer Incentives.
  • Turn ambiguous problems into actionable technical strategies and drive execution from formulation to production.
  • Design models and algorithms to improve incentive relevance and optimize decisions under business constraints.
  • Architect and contribute to end-to-end ML systems including data pipelines, model training, and monitoring.
  • Establish rigorous approaches for model evaluation, experimental design, and causal measurement of business outcomes.
  • Evaluate and implement emerging techniques like reinforcement learning, foundation models, and generative AI.
  • Mentor engineers and technical leaders to raise the quality of technical decision-making across the organization.

What we're looking for

  • Master's degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics.
  • 12+ years of machine learning experience, including significant work on large-scale deep learning systems.
  • Demonstrated ownership of high-impact ML systems such as search, recommendations, personalization, or targeting.
  • Proven ability to set technical strategy for a large organization and influence product roadmaps at the executive level.
  • Strong product intuition and the ability to connect model improvements to business outcomes.
  • Track record of successfully launching multi-year, multi-org ML initiatives that drove step-change business outcomes (preferred).
  • Successfully championed and driven the adoption of multi-year technical roadmaps across multiple large engineering organizations (preferred).
  • Elevated engineering standards through mentorship and technical leadership, establishing org-wide best practices (preferred).

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