About the Role
Lyft is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer for the ETA team, which is responsible for estimating and predicting ETAs for ride requests. This role is critical for matching decisions, pricing, and user experience, requiring low latency, high reliability, and high accuracy. The ideal candidate is a critical thinker with experience in machine learning workflows, reliable coding, and a passion for solving business problems with data in a dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
- Perform data analysis and build proof-of-concept to explore and compare ML and non-ML solutions.
- Make effective tradeoffs between model accuracy, productization complexity, and runtime performance.
- Develop statistical, machine learning, or optimization models.
- Write production-quality code that scales to serve millions of requests daily.
- Participate in code reviews, design reviews, production on-call support, and incident triaging.
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code.
Requirements
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or other quantitative fields, or equivalent work experience.
- 3+ years of Machine Learning experience.
- Ability to work in distributed teams across different time zones (North America and Europe).
Skills
- Machine Learning
- Data Analysis
- Production Code Development
- Code Reviews
- Design Reviews
- On-call Support
- Incident Triaging
- Apache Airflow
- Spark
Location
- San Francisco area
Work Type
- Hybrid
- In-office (3 days per week)
- Remote (up to 4 weeks per year)
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Education Level
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or other quantitative fields, or related work experience
Salary/Compensations
- $140,800 - $176,000
Benefits
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs.
- Mental health benefits.
- Family building benefits.
- Child care and pet benefits.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- Discretionary paid time off (salaried) / 15 days paid time off (hourly).
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Subsidized commuter benefits.
- Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership.
About the Company
- Lyft's purpose is to serve and connect.
- We aim to cultivate a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.
- Our technology stack runs on AWS, Kubernetes, Go, Spark, Python and Apache Airflow.
- We work with passionate and talented colleagues from software engineering, machine learning and data science.
- We build rideshare experiences that delight millions of riders and drivers.
Equal Opportunity
- Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law.
- We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
