Data 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 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. We're looking for a passionate, driven Data Scientist who is excited to dive into our spatial data and build a best-in-class mapping product that provides safe, efficient, and seamless navigation for our rideshare drivers. Data Science is at the heart of Lyft’s products and decision-making. You will leverage data and rigorous, analytical thinking to shape our mapping products and make business decisions that put our customers first. This will involve identifying and scoping opportunities, shaping priorities, recommending technical solutions, designing experiments, and measuring the impact of new features. You will help us solve some of the most impactful problems in mapping, including: How do we improve the quality of our map data in order to improve our recommendations? How do we benchmark and measure the success of our services? How do we validate features of the real world that affect our routing algorithms? Are we meeting our travel estimation promises to our customers? Responsibilities: Leverage data and analytic frameworks to identify opportunities for growth and efficiency Partner with product managers, engineers, and operators to translate analytical insights into decisions and action, and implement products to drive business goals Design and analyze online experiments; communicate results and act on launch decisions Develop analytical frameworks to monitor business and product performance Establish metrics that measure the health of our products, as well as rider and driver experience Identify and drive impact and alignment, shaping product and business strategy

About the Team The Analytics team is looking for Data Analysts and Data Scientists to guide measurement, strategy, and tactical decision-making using Advanced Analytics approaches, as we expand our logistics platform across the globe. Data Scientists at DoorDash work to uncover insights and turn them into actionable recommendations, helping drive decisions for the entire organisation. Analytics is very integral to all operational areas at DoorDash. About the Role Data Science at DoorDash involves diving deeper into our data to solve crucial business problems, ideate & run experiments to solve for insights gleaned from this deep dive and work with a cross-functional team to drive real-world operational change. It is NOT just about building Machine Learning models and putting them into production. This is a rare operational and actionable data-driven experience. We solve many exciting challenges from all three sides of our marketplace including customer acquisition, balancing supply and demand, fraud and support, marketing, marketplace efficiency, and more. If you enjoy finding patterns amidst chaos, are excited to build a market from 0 to 1, and have experience using analytics to affect revenue, growth, operations or beyond, we're looking for someone like you! You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Be a first-class thought partner to our product, business, finance and executive teams and help them make decisions on what’s next for DoorDash Use quantitative analysis and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand what drives our business Build full-cycle analytics experiments, reports, and dashboards using SQL, Python, R, or other scripting and statistical tools Produce recommendations and use statistical techniques and hypothesis testing and other experimentation techniques to validate your findings Provide insights to enable our cross-functional team to understand marketplace dynamics, user behaviours, and long-term t

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 a Data Scientist on the Mapping team, you will collaborate with our world class team of scientists, engineers, product managers, and designers to grow and improve the quality of recommended routes and accuracy of our travel time estimations. We're looking for a passionate, driven Data Scientist who is excited to dive into our geospatial, behavioural and mobility data, and build a best-in-class mapping product that provides safe, efficient, and seamless navigation for our rideshare drivers. Data Science is at the heart of Lyft’s products and decision-making. You will leverage data and rigorous, analytical thinking to shape our mapping products and make business decisions that put our customers first. The Mapping team serves models and systems that determine the most efficient routes, fastest travel estimates and process real-time map data signals to detect traffic, closures and slowdowns. Working with our business and analytics partners, the team owns tools to ensure Lyft offers routes that our users trust. This will involve identifying and scoping opportunities, recommending technical solutions, designing experiments, and measuring the impact of new features. You will help us solve some of the most impactful problems in Mapping, including: How do we accurately predict acute and chronic traffic conditions? How do we improve the recommendations of our routing algorithms? How do we keep our travel estimation promises to our riders and drivers? How do we benchmark and measure the success of our services? Responsibilities: Own the complete lifecycle of algorithmic solutions from problem formulation, data exploration, and feature engineering to deployment, monitoring, and iteration Prioritize and lead deep dives into our data to uncover new product and business opportunities Partner closely with E

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 a Data Scientist in the Pay, Integrity & Identity org, you will collaborate with our world class team of engineers, product managers, analysts and other data scientists to help create best in class pay platforms, stop fraudulent actors from harming our riders & drivers fraud and build user trust on the Lyft platform. You will run experiments (A/B tests) and develop data driven solutions to launch new features and remove the bad actors from the Lyft platform while maintaining a positive experience for genuine users. We’re looking for an intellectually curious individual who has extraordinary attention to detail, a track record of analytical problem-solving and skilled communication. Prior experience in the fintech, fraud or identity space is preferred. Responsibilities: Design and analyze experiments in collaboration with other scientists, product & engineering; communicate findings to stakeholders and facilitate launch decisions Leverage advanced statistical techniques to generate quantitative insights and develop machine learning models Analyze the wide variety of signals available to identify patterns in large datasets and uncover root causes Partner with product managers, engineers, and operators to translate analytical insights into decisions and action Build data pipelines and develop analytical frameworks to monitor business and product performance Set business metrics that measure the health of our products, as well as passenger and driver experience Collaborate with product and engineering and communicate findings to stakeholders in a clear and concise manner Experience: Degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, economics, applied math, operations research or engineering (advanced degrees preferred), or relevant work experience 4-6+ years of industry experi

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. Data Science is at the heart of Lyft’s products and decision-making. Data Scientists at Lyft operate in dynamic environments, moving quickly to build the world’s best transportation solutions. We tackle a wide range of challenges - from shaping long-term business strategy with data, to making critical short-term decisions, to developing algorithms and models that power both internal systems and customer-facing products. Driver Incentives Science owns the algorithms and systems behind incentive design, influencing driver engagement and marketplace efficiency — from real-time supply positioning to longer-horizon earnings and engagement programs. The team is responsible for designing pay and incentive mechanisms that are efficient and good for driver experience over the long run. As a Data Scientist specializing in Algorithms, you'll partner closely with product, engineering, and operations leaders to build and scale incentive systems, shape long-term mechanism design strategy, and deliver on critical business goals tied to marketplace efficiency and driver earnings. Candidates with strong optimization backgrounds — think mathematical programming, control theory, or operations research — are a great fit, though we welcome strong candidates from machine learning or causal inference as well. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment and brings a hands-on, entrepreneurial mindset to drive results. Responsibilities: Collaborate with engineering and product teams to design, implement, and iterate on new features and algorithmic improvements for driver incentives and pay mechanisms. Design, develop, and deploy optimization models, algorithms, and systems for problems such as budget allocation, multidimensional cost-curve development, and incentive targeting. Write production model code; collabor

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team Our Data Science team partners deeply with teams across Stripe to ensure that our users, our products, and our business have the models, data products, and insights needed to make decisions and grow responsibly. We're looking for data scientists with a passion for analyzing data, building machine learning and statistical models, and running experiments to drive impact. Our Fraud, Losses, and Financial Crime Data Science team builds the models and data products that protect Stripe and its users from fraud, account takeover, and financial crime. We own the full fraud and loss modeling stack - from account takeover detection and card fraud classification to merchant-level loss estimation, unsupervised anomaly detection, and financial crime risk modeling. We partner with Fraud Engineering, Financial Crimes Engineering, and Risk Operations to bring these systems into production and ensure they have measurable impact on Stripe's financial integrity and user trust. What you'll do We're looking for a Data Scientist to join the Fraud Data Science team. In this role, you'll build and improve the models that power Stripe's fraud detection and loss management systems. You'll work closely with Fraud Engineering and Risk Operations to move models from research to production, and you'll use data to surface insights that shape fraud strategy across the business. Data scientists on this team apply supervised and unsupervised machine learning, statistical mod