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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendations

San Francisco Office💼 Full-time💰 $162,800–$162,800🗓 2026-05-27 → 2026-09-26

Core

Developing and launching algorithms that power Lyft's core services and impactful products across transportation, economics, forecasting, mapping, safety, personalization, and adaptive control.

Role type

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Recommendations & Core Platform)

Builds

Production ML systems for ride matching, personalization, and platform optimization

Domain

Transportation / Marketplace / Data Science

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine Learning workflows, Python, Golang, supervised learning, forecasting, recommendation systems, reinforcement learning, multi-armed bandits, statistical modeling, optimization models, production code deployment, data analysis

Preferred skills

Experience in one or multiple fields (transportation, economics, forecasting, mapping, safety, personalization, adaptive control), critical thinking, passion for solving business problems with data

Technologies

Python, Golang

Responsibilities

Partner with Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Business Partners to apply machine learning for business and user impact; Perform data analysis and build proof-of-concept to explore and propose ML solutions; Develop statistical, machine learning, or optimization models; Write production quality code to launch machine learning models at scale; Evaluate machine learning systems against business goals

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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