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We deliver products that create seamless, affordable, and enjoyable customer experiences by building AI/ML-powered intelligence and sophisticated distributed systems at scale for hundreds of millions of global users.\nWhat you’ll do\nAs a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will shape the technical vision and long-term ML strategy for Consumer Incentives. You will tackle fundamental questions about how to personalize incentives, understand their incremental impact on consumer behavior, and optimize investment to deliver customer value and sustainable business growth.\nThis is a hands-on technical leadership role spanning machine learning, optimization, experimentation, and large-scale systems. You will lead initiatives across team boundaries, partner with engineering and cross-functional leaders to define the roadmap, and translate advances in ML into reliable products with measurable business impact. Building on our established capabilities in deep learning and constrained optimization, you will also help identify and develop opportunities for reinforcement learning, foundation models, and generative AI.\nSet technical direction: Define the long-term ML vision, architecture, and technical roadmap for Consumer Incentives, aligning investments with consumer needs and business priorities.\nLead strategically important initiatives: Turn ambiguous problems into actionable technical strategies, and drive execution across teams from problem formulation and offline evaluation through experimentation, production deployment, and ongoing improvement.\nAdvance personalization and optimization: Design models and algorithms that improve incentive relevance, estimate incremental impact, and optimize decisions under business and operational constraints.\nArchitect scalable ML systems: Guide-and contribute directly to-the design and implementation of end-to-end ML systems, spanning data and feature pipelines, model training, inference, and monitoring, with a high bar for reliability, scalability, and maintainability.\nConnect scientific rigor to business outcomes: Establish strong approaches to model evaluation, experimental design, and causal measurement, balancing short-term results with long-term consumer value and sustainable growth.\nTranslate emerging techniques into practical advances: Evaluate where reinforcement learning, foundation models, and generative AI can meaningfully improve our products, and lead promising approaches from exploration to production.\nBuild alignment across functions: Partner with product management, data science, operations, and engineering leaders to prioritize opportunities, make technical tradeoffs, and deliver shared outcomes.\nMultiply the impact of others: Mentor engineers and technical leaders, raise the quality of technical decision-making, and build reusable capabilities that accelerate work across teams.\nBasic Qualifications\nMasters degree or Ph.D in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics\n12+ years of ML experience, including significant work on large-scale deep learning systems.\nDemonstrated ownership of high-impact ML systems such as search, recommendations, personalization, targeting.\nProven ability to set the technical strategy for a large organization and influence product roadmaps at the executive level.\nStrong product intuition and ability to connect model improvements to business outcomes.\nPreferred Qualifications\nTrack record of successfully launching multi-year, multi-org ML initiatives that drove step-change business outcomes.\nSuccessfully championed and driven the adoption of multi-year technical roadmaps across multiple large engineering organizations.\nElevated engineering standards through mentorship and technical leadership, establishing org-wide best practices.\n For New York City, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 per year.\nFor San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 per year.\nFor Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 per year.\nFor Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 per year.\nFor 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. 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