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📍 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada· Full-time
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C$125K – C$200K/yr

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We are looking for a Data Scientist to join our Quantitative Equity Team! We are a high-performance team embedded in a top-performing quantitative equity fund that manages over $78+ billion USD in financial assets. We are dedicated to the mission-critical operation of our investment engine—a well-oiled machine responsible for generating key investment insights that drive trades. Leveraging data analytics, finance knowledge and cutting-edge technology, we aim to ensure that new and useful data products are continuously ready for research. Do you love the idea of evaluating and integrating large proprietary data sources into valuable applications? Are you a wizard at transforming ‘messy reality’ into high quality data assets? As a core member of our team, you will collaborate with investment and data experts to tackle challenging problems, and to continuously expand our capabilities in the data space. Based on the west coast in Vancouver, we value mentorship, collaboration, and growth in a supportive and innovative environment. Join us to make a significant impact on our investment outcomes and overall success. What You Will Do This is an exciting full-time role for individuals who are enthusiastic about learning the quantitative equity investment management business and excited to tackle a broad range of investment, mathematical, and technology challenges. You will start with a comprehensive training program, learning about various elements of quantitative equity investment management and our investment process. You will then continue to a specialized role utilizing data science, machine learning, AI, and process engineering skillsets to accelerate the Quantitative Equity Team’s data preparation and modelling functions. Your specialized role will involve building, scaling, managing and evaluating our integrated data model, in direct support of alpha research. You will be supported with coaching and mentorsh

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📍 Canada· Contract
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Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why this role? This role will focus on evaluating data science and coding tasks, requiring you to review and debug code, analyze model trajectories, and assess data visualization script development and logical flow implementation. Your work will contribute to our model development efforts and the logic our models apply when completing task requests. Please note : This is a part-time independent contractor position available within Canada. We seek candidates who are able to commit to 16 hours per week minimum at a 40 CAD/hour contract rate. This role is BYOD 💻 - Bring Your Own Device (laptop). Remote work within Canada. 12 month contract. Performance incentives included! As a Data Annotation Specialist, you will: Evaluate the model's ability to respond to coding requests, workflows, and code base-related questions using available tools. Assess agent trajectories and model capabilities for code generation, tabular and graphic manipulation, and debugging requests. Prompt models to complete complex data science tasks and review the accuracy of generated responses. Label, proofread, and improve machine-written and human-written soft

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $196K/yr

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Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: The Data Science team works closely with partners from Design, Product and Engineering across Airbnb’s product portfolio. Our work involves 0-to-1 innovation, applying sophisticated modeling techniques to critical Airbnb problems and finding new ways to leverage science for the good of the Airbnb community. Web prototypers work with Data Scientists to identify key questions during the development of these new solutions and build software prototypes that answer them. The work of DS prototyping covers everything from designing the right data visualization to focused explorations that help solve key design questions to broad explorations that help validate ideas. The Difference You Will Make: This role is focussed on partnering with the Data Science team to develop prototypes that show the potential of new data models targeting critical business and user problems. Step change advances in ML/AI have the potential to transform Airbnb, but doing that well requires not just building the right models, but also creating the right experience -- your work will be critical in enabling us to do that. Sophisticated and impactful models are often complex and hard to understand -- by building effective prototypes you can help close that gap and allow innovation to flourish. Your prototypes will enable leadership to make critical and strategic business decisions by demonstrating technical feasibility, suggesting implementation approaches, enabling user studies, and more. A Typical Day: As a web prototyper, you will create prototypes that enable differentiating and industry-leading produc

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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$84K – $120K/yr

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We believe communication belongs to everyone. We exist to democratize phone service. TextNow is evolving the way the world connects, and that's because we're made up of people with curious minds who bring an optimistic yet critical lens into the work we do. We're the largest provider of free phone service in the nation. And we're just getting started. Join us in our mission to break down barriers to communication and free the flow of conversation for people everywhere. TextNow is looking for an experienced Data Developer with hands-on experience designing and developing data platforms. You will own the design, development, and maintenance of TextNow's data platform, enabling us to make effective data-informed decisions. You will be part of cross-functional efforts to build scalable and reliable frameworks that support allTextNow's business and data products. In this role, you can interact with different functional areas within the business and influence decision-making in a fast-growing mobile communications start-up. This role is about impact at scale. You’ll shape how TextNow builds and operates its systems in an AI-first environment where intelligent tooling is embedded into everyday engineering practice. Using AI is not optional, it’s expected. From design and architecture to implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and operational analysis, you will actively leverage AI tools to increase velocity, improve code quality, and make better technical decisions. We provide a robust suite of AI-powered development tools and workflows to support you, and we expect you to continuously evolve how you use them to raise the bar for efficiency, clarity, and product excellence across the organization. What You'll Do Own TextNow's data warehouse, data pipelines, and integration points between various business systems. Design, develo

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📍 BC, Canada· Full-time· Remote
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From C$161K/yr

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We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview This is a general posting for multiple Senior Data Science roles open across our 4-sided marketplace. Roles are open at both the L5 (Senior Data Scientist I) and L6 (Senior Data Scientist II) levels. You’ll get the chance to learn about the different problems the Data Science team solves as you go through the process. Towards the end of your process, we’ll do a team-matching exercise to determine which of the open roles/teams you’ll join. At the bottom of this posting, you’ll find a breakdown of the currently open roles. About the Job Own analytical frameworks that guide the product roadmap. Design rigorous experiments and interpret results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions. Develop statistical models to extract trends, measure results, and predict future performance of our products. Build simulations to project the impact of various produ

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📍 Ontario, Canada· Full-time· Remote
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Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . Location: At Reddit we continue to grow our teams with the best talent. We're completely remote friendly . Team Description: The Marketing Science team at Reddit leverages data to maximize the impact of Reddit’s own marketing investments. We serve as the engine behind our growth, using advanced experimentation, causal inference, and econometrics to understand what drives users to Reddit and what brings advertisers to our platform. We work at the intersection of brand building and performance marketing, ensuring every dollar spent is an investment in the long-term health of our ecosystem. Role Description: Reddit is looking for a highly experienced Staff Data Scientist to lead the strategy and technical execution of our Marketing Intelligence efforts. In this role, you will be the primary architect of how we measure and optimize Reddit’s marketing spend. You will focus on two critical flywheels: B2B Marketing (acquiring and retaining advertisers) and B2C Growth (acquiring and engaging new Redditors). This is a high-autonomy, high-impact role where you will set the long-term strategic goals for Reddit’s marketing measurement, influencing senior leadership and defining how we value our brand and performance efforts. Responsibilities: Set Long-Term Marketing Strategy: Define the 2–3 year technical roadmap for marketing measurement. Establish the "North Star" metrics and frameworks that determine how Reddit allocates hundreds of millions in marketing budget. Optimize Marketing ROI: Build and refine Media Mix Models (MM

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . Reddit’s Ads Data Science team is looking for a Senior Staff Data Scientist to lead the scientific strategy behind Reddit’s ads measurement and signal systems. This role sits at the center of how Reddit proves advertiser value, improves signal quality, builds privacy-aware measurement systems, and connects ads exposure to real advertiser outcomes. As a Senior Staff Data Scientist for Ads Measurement, you will be the principal architect of our technical vision and the driving force behind the next generation of our measurement ecosystem. In a landscape rapidly shifting due to privacy regulations, browser changes, and evolving platform dynamics, you will spearhead innovation across experimental design (incrementality/lift), identity, signals, and privacy-safe 1P/3P measurement. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role requiring a rare blend of deep experimentation & causal inference expertise, strategic foresight, and the ability to influence cross-functional executives and industry standards. You will not just adapt to the changing ad-tech environment, you will redefine how we measure value. Responsibilities Technical Vision & Strategy: Define the long-term data science vision & strategy across ads measurement, signal quality, identity, attribution, and privacy. Establish how Reddit should evaluate advertiser value, measurement quality, and signal utility across first-party and third-party products. Set the Cross-Pillar Measurement Science Strategy: Define the long-term data science strategy across a

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . Reddit’s Ads Data Science team is looking for a highly experienced Staff Data Scientist to advance the intelligence powering the advertiser experience on Reddit. In this role, you'll take deep ownership of a high-impact problem space within advertising, specializing in measurement, identity, and signal quality. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role where you'll influence strategic direction, set a high technical bar, and drive cross-functional initiatives across one or more critical focus areas in the Ads organization. Responsibilities: Design the Future of Ads Identity: Develop/employ probabilistic models for identity resolution. Design the methodology that links on-platform and off-platform actions to maximize addressability while honoring privacy. Advance Lift Methodologies & Experimentation: Own the statistical rigor behind Reddit’s Brand and Conversion Lift products. Innovate experimental design and develop infrastructure that supports large-scale, high-velocity, low-bias testing for advertisers. Maximize Signal for Predictive Performance: Define the strategy for new signal sources. You will mathematically quantify the value of these signals and work with modeling teams to incorporate them into predictive models, directly improving bidding efficiency and ROAS. Define Ground Truth & Evaluation Frameworks: Solve the industry-wide challenge of validating identity and measurement. Design the objective functions and truth sets used to train our models and measure the incremental impact of our identity graph.

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📍 Ontario, Canada· Full-time· Remote
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Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . Reddit has a flexible first workforce. At Reddit we continue to grow our teams with the best talent. We're completely remote friendly and will continue to be. Advertising is Reddit’s primary revenue driver and we have an ambitious goal to turn it into a massive business. Although several large digital ad platforms already exist, advertisers are being increasingly drawn to Reddit because of our passionate communities. We believe our community-centric platform has created the opportunity for Reddit to build a highly differentiated ads business. About the Ads Data Science Team: The Ads Data Science team at Reddit leverages data to maximize advertiser value on Reddit through robust data foundations, metrics, and strategic insights generated through experimentation and cutting-edge DS methods. We work on a wide range of challenging problems in the areas of ads and platform measurement, campaign and creative management, advertiser growth and retention, monetization, and the intersection of brand and community engagement. We are a highly collaborative team of passionate data scientists and engineers who are constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible with machine learning and statistical modeling. About the Role: Reddit’s Ads Data Science team is looking for a highly experienced Staff Data Scientist to advance the intelligence powering the advertiser experience on Reddit. In this role, you'll take deep ownership of a high-impact problem space within advertising, specializing in measurement, identity, and signal

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📍 Ontario, Canada· Full-time· Remote
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Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history. This is a unique opportunity to leave your mark on one of the most influential and trafficked corners of the internet. Consumer data science plays a key role in fulfilling Reddit’s mission of bringing community & belonging to the world through deep understanding of how we can better connect people to the best information and communities for them - the heart of Reddit’s product - from crypto to support groups, gaming to AMAs, travel tips to memes. Reddit's experimentation landscape presents uniquely challenging problems. Our platform is a deeply interconnected network of communities, contributors, and consumers – meaning that standard A/B testing assumptions often break down. We need a senior technical leader who thrives on these hard problems and can raise the bar for causal inference and experimentation rigor across the entire Consumer organization. As a Senior Staff Data Scientist on the Consumer team, you will be the go-to expert on experimentation methodology, owning the most comp

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📍 Menlo Park, Canada· Full-time
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Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The Data Engineering team builds and maintains the foundational datasets that power decision-making across Robinhood. We design reliable, scalable data systems that support product analytics, growth strategy, financial reporting, experimentation, and machine learning. The team partners closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Finance to ensure accurate, well-modeled data is available to teams across the company. Our work directly influences how Robinhood measures performance, improves customer experience, and scales its products. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will design, build, and evolve core datasets that track product performance and company-wide metrics. You will develop scalable data pipelines that ingest application events and database snapshots into our data lake, ensuring high data quality and reliability. You’ll collaborate with application engineers to improve data generation patterns and with analytics teams to design intuitive, well-documented data models. This is an opportunity to shape the technical foundation that supports data-informed decisions across the organization! This role is based in our Menlo Park, CA office, with in-person attend

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📍 Menlo Park, CA; New York, Canada· Full-time
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Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The Talent Management & Analytics team is scaling to its next major milestone—integrating advanced predictive insights and tactical AI into our workforce systems. Our mission is to build the data solutions that help the entire company recruit exceptional talent, design high-performing team structures, and put active organizational insights directly into the hands of everyone making team decisions. Operating at the intersection of data science, product development, and organizational psychology, we are transforming how Robinhood uses data to empower our workforce and anticipate organizational needs. As a Staff Data Scientist, you will serve as the team's technical and strategic anchor, owning the vision, design, and delivery of the high-impact data products that our executives, people partners, and line managers rely on every day. Your focus will be entirely on solving meaningful organizational problems: understanding what enables exceptional talent to thrive, accelerating team performance, and designing proactive strategies that support long-term retention across Robinhood. This is a unique opportunity to apply state-of-the-art language models and predictive analytics to

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📍 Menlo Park, Canada· Full-time
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Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The Growth team's mission is to help Robinhood grow smarter, not just faster, by pairing data-driven insights with sharp execution. We help ensure every growth investment is measurable, efficient, and delivers lasting value. We work closely with partners in Product, Paid Media, and Lifecycle Marketing to improve how we acquire users, keep them engaged, and grow their value over time. As a Senior Data Scientist, Product , you will help answer big, foundational questions to shape our premium subscription product, Robinhood Gold! In this high-impact role, you will help identify the right customers for Gold and determine which offers and incentives drive signups and retention. You will collaborate closely with partners across Product, Marketing, and Finance to prioritize key initiatives and measure business impact clearly. This position offers tremendous opportunity to influence product strategy and shape our long-term growth trajectory. This role is based in our Menlo Park, CA office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our o

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From C$40/hr

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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. Interns work side-by-side with top engineers in the industry while having autonomy from the get-go. They contribute to user-facing products and are able to see their work go live quickly. Lyft fosters a collaborative environment in the office, so there's always a sharp mind eager to hear about your next idea. So what's yours? Responsibilities: Own your project, while checking in with other team members throughout the day with questions and updates You leave the code in a better state than when you found it (progressive refactor) You value reliability, ensured by testing Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Continuous integration and deployment Go home knowing that your work today is meaningfully improving the lives of every Lyft driver and every Lyft passenger! Experience: Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science or related major from a university in Canada (required) , with a graduation date between December 2027 and Summer 2028 (required) . For any candidates who are master's students who worked between their bachelor's and master's programs: candidates should also have less than 2 years of relevant full-time work experience Available during Summer 2027 for an internship in Toronto Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals Knowledge of SQL and data modeling fundamentals Experience working with databases Excellent communication skills Interest in solving large scale data problems in a real world scenario Passion for community, sustainability, and/or transportation Benefits: Mental health benefits In addition to holidays, interns receive 2 days paid time off and 3 days sick time off Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits Lyft is committed to creating an inclusive workforce that fosters belonging. Lyft belie

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From C$1.3M/yr

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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. The Safety and Customer Care (SCC) team at Lyft manages over 1.7 million monthly human and AI interactions and serves as Lyft's primary direct touchpoint with riders and drivers. We handle critical infrastructure that powers both human associates and AI agents to make riders and drivers feel safe and comfortable while riding or driving with Lyft, transforming every support interaction into a moment of genuine connection. As a Data Scientist working on Causal Inference in SCC, you'll partner with a strong team of engineers, product managers, designers, and operations leaders to deliver a personalized and exceptional experience for Lyft customers, using rigorous causal inference to guide the highest-stakes decisions we make. We're looking for a motivated and talented Data Scientist with deep causal inference expertise to join the SCC Data Science team. You'll partner closely with the area's tech lead on high-impact work spanning AI-powered support products, differentiated service, and operations optimization. The ideal candidate brings sharp applied inference intuition, a bias toward impact, and the ability to cut through ambiguity in complex problem spaces. You'll work on projects like: Design rigorous experiments and quasi-experiments to measure the causal impact of SCC product and AI-agent launches, and drive data-informed launch decisions. Build causal ML models to optimize concession budget allocation, targeting the right support credit, to the right rider or driver, at the right moment to maximize trust and business impact. Quantify the long-term effects of support-experience changes on rider and driver retention, and uncover heterogeneous treatment effects across our community. Deliver strategic insights on quality–cost tradeoffs, empowering leadership to balance service quality, coverage,

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