Role overview
The Courier Pricing team sits within Uber's Delivery Marketplace org and plays a key role in shaping pricing across food, grocery, and other delivery verticals. We work closely with cross-functional teams to develop scalable pricing products that keep our marketplace efficient, reliable, and ready to grow. As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you'll build a world-class pricing system that efficiently prices every offer made to Uber's delivery partners-impacting hundreds of millions of consumers and millions of merchants worldwide.
*What You Will Do
Technical Leadership & Innovation**
- Lead the design and implementation of advanced ML systems for courier pricing algorithms serving millions of couriers
- Own end-to-end ML model lifecycle from research through production deployment and continuous optimization
What we're looking for
- Deep expertise across multiple areas including: Deep Learning, Causal Inference, Reinforcement Learning, Multi-objective Optimization, and Algorithmic Game Theory
- Experience with feature engineering, model serving, and ML infrastructure at scale (handling millions of predictions per second)
- Marketplace or two-sided platform ML experience with understanding of supply-demand dynamics and pricing mechanisms
- Publications or patents in applied machine learning, particularly in areas relevant to optimization, pricing, or marketplace dynamics
- Experience with causal inference methodologies and their application to business problems with network effects
- Reinforcement learning experience in production environments with long-term optimization and strategic agent considerations
- Technical leadership experience including mentoring senior engineers and driving cross-team technical initiatives
- Experience with real-time ML systems requiring low-latency inference and high-throughput model serving Background in economics, operations research, or related quantitative disciplines with application to marketplace problems
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$232,000 per year - USD$258,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$232,000 per year - USD$258,000 per year. For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.