Data Scientist - Decisions, Mapping

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

Requirements

• Degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, economics, applied math, operations research or engineering (advanced degrees preferred), or relevant work experience
• 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 to help save for your future
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy
• Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service
• Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs
• Subsidized commuter benefits