Data Scientist, Decisions – Mapping

Role Overview

As a Data Scientist on the Mapping team, you will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to grow and improve the quality of recommended routes and accuracy of travel time estimations. You will leverage data and analytical thinking to shape our mapping products and make business decisions that put our customers first.

What You Will Do

You will identify and scope opportunities, shape priorities, recommend technical solutions, design experiments, and measure the impact of new features. You will help us solve some of the most impactful problems in mapping, including improving map data quality, benchmarking and measuring success, validating features of the real world, and meeting travel estimation promises to customers.

Why It Might Be a Fit

We’re looking for a passionate, driven Data Scientist who is excited to dive into our spatial data and build a best-in-class mapping product that provides safe, efficient, and seamless navigation for our rideshare drivers.

Requirements

• Degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, economics, applied math, operations research or engineering (advanced degrees preferred)
• 1+ years experience in a data science role or analytics role
• Proficiency in SQL – able to write structured and efficient queries on large data sets
• End-to-end experience with data, including querying, aggregation, analysis, and visualization
• Experience in programming, especially with data science and visualization libraries in Python or R, and machine learning libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras
• Experience in online experimentation and statistical analysis, and communicating results and recommendations to senior stakeholders
• Strong oral and written communication skills, and ability to collaborate with and influence cross-functional partners

Benefits

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
• RRSP plan with company match to help save for your future
• Flexible paid time off policy
• 18 weeks of paid time off for new parents
• Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits