Staff Applied Scientist

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. As an Applied Scientist specializing in Machine Learning and Operations Research on this team, you will develop mathematical models and launch algorithms that power these key pricing and ETA decisions. You will leverage your skills to build ML and optimization models and productionalize pipelines that can scale to millions of calls per day while solving critical business problems that have a big impact on the marketplace and rider experience. You will get exposure to a diverse set of real-world problems across optimization, prediction, machine learning, and inference and collaborate closely with teammates and stakeholders across Pricing, from Product Managers to Engineers and Analysts. We are looking for someone who is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and impactful environment, and is adept at balancing complexity and efficiency to translate real world business problems into reliable solutions, systems and decision frameworks. Responsibilities Partner with Data Scientists, Engineers, Product Managers, and Business Partners to frame problems mathematically and within the business context Write production quality code. Design, build and deploy production-grade ML and Optimization models. Able to build custom methods and tooling beyond off-the-shelf libraries. Perform data analysis and build proof-of-concepts to explore and propose ML and Optimization solutions to both new and existing problems. Evaluate machine learning systems against business goals. Collaborate with Engineers to implement algorithms in live systems and ensure the robustness of the systems Establish metrics and dev