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Our work spans ranking homepage components, predicting and suggesting users’ next destinations, understanding user intent to deliver tailored experiences, presenting promotions at the right time, and optimizing the overall homepage experience across multiple business lines, including Rides, Eats, Grocery, and more.\nAs a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will shape the technical and scientific direction across these problem domains and lead the design and development of ML solutions, such as real-time sequential recommendation models, intent-aware ranking, and LLM-based and agentic solutions that go beyond traditional retrieval and ranking approaches. You will partner closely with product teams to deliver personalized user experiences, drive technical strategy across teams, and mentor engineers at various levels to elevate the team's technical excellence.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDrive ML technical strategy: Shape the technical and scientific direction of homepage personalization and recommendation systems.\nBuild advanced ML solutions: Lead the development of sequential recommendation models, intent-aware ranking, and LLM-based and agentic solutions.\nDeliver product impact: Partner with cross-functional teams to improve user experience, engagement, and business outcomes across Uber’s business lines.\nProvide technical leadership: Drive engineering excellence, influence technical decisions across teams, and mentor ML engineers.\nBasic Qualifications\nDeep expertise in machine learning, deep learning, and recommendation systems, including ranking, sequential modeling, and transformer architectures.\nStrong programming skills in Python3 with hands-on experience using ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.\nProven track record of leading complex ML initiatives, driving measurable business impact, and influencing technical direction across teams.\nPreferred Qualifications\n8+ years of industry experience designing, developing, and deploying machine learning models in large-scale production environments.\nMaster's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.\nExperience with advanced recommendation architectures, such as transformer-based sequential modeling, generative recommendation, and foundation models for personalization.\nExperience applying LLMs and agentic AI to personalization, recommendation, or user intent understanding.\nExperience optimizing multi-objective ranking systems across engagement, conversion, revenue, and long-term user value.\nDemonstrated research contributions through publications at top-tier ML conferences, patents, or successful application of novel ML techniques in production.\nFor San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $232,000 per year - USD $258,000 per year.\nFor Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $232,000 per year - USD $258,000 per year.\nFor Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $232,000 per year - USD $258,000 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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