Senior Data Scientist, Marketplace

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Data Science is at the heart of Lyft's products and decision-making. As a member of the Science team, you will work in a dynamic environment, where we embrace moving quickly to build the world's best transportation. Data Scientists take on a variety of problems ranging from shaping critical business decisions to building the machine learning models and algorithms that power our internal and external products. The Forecasting and Real-Time Optimization Platform (FORTOP) team in Lyft's Rideshare Experience & Marketplace (REM) org provides reliable, real-time market supply and demand signals and forecasts that power the systems making critical automated decisions for Lyft's business. These signals feed many of Lyft's most important marketplace products, including Dynamic Pricing, Real-Time Supply Management, Fulfillment, etc. As a Senior Data Scientist on FORTOP, you will improve marketplace efficiency by designing, training, and applying machine learning models that deliver accurate real-time and forecast signals under dynamic conditions. We're looking for a driven Senior Data Scientist who is passionate about solving challenging problems with machine learning, and who is excited to work in a fast-paced, innovative, and cross-functional environment where they will take on some of the most interesting and impactful modeling problems in ridesharing. Responsibilities: Partner with Engineers, Product Managers, and Business Partners to frame problems, both mathematically and within the business context, and shape roadmaps across cross-functional teams Perform exploratory data analysis to gain a deeper understanding of the problem and the marketplace Develop, fit, and evaluate time series forecasting and machine learning models</li