About the role and team
The AM&D (Autonomous Mobility & Delivery) team owns the autonomous future of Uber’s Rides and Eats business, which is one of Uber’s most important bets as a public company that sets the world in motion. Our goal is to eventually enable mass-scale AV commercialization globally in all 10,000+ cities Uber operates. We are just getting started.
As we gradually but surely move towards this future, there is a full spectrum of engineering challenges that need to be tackled. For the Autonomous Mobility Product Engineering team, specifically:
- How do we drive AV adoption with informative, trustworthy, and exciting experiences?
- How do we make sure a rider's autonomous ride-share experience is still safe, informative, and trustworthy without a human driver to interact with? From pickup, to on-trip to drop-off.
We are solving problems that have never been solved before. Creating solutions that will shape the world’s future in autonomous transportation. Therefore, we are looking for the best software engineering talents to join us to write this future chapter for humanity.
What you’ll do
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be expected to lead key projects that contribute to one or several top-line KPIs for the team. You will work closely with cross-functional partners to develop product requirements and technical designs, and push these plans into fruition.
- Develop a strategic roadmap that helps Uber to achieve specific business goals that advance its strategic goals that strengthens Uber’s position as the Autonomous Vehicle rideshare platform of choice.
- Lead and guide end-to-end execution of multiple projects concurrently across multiple lines of business with deep knowledge and intuition around experience, marketplace dynamics, and platform versatility to drive key metrics from project to project.
- Ship new products and paradigms that move KPIs quarter over quarter while ensuring platform stability.
- Develop tech that future-proofs Uber’s tech stack for Autonomous Vehicle use cases while making broader company-wide impact where applicable.
Basic Qualifications
PhD or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field AND 2-years full-time Software Engineering work experience OR 5-years full-time Software Engineering work experience, WHICH INCLUDES 3-years total technical software engineering experience in one or more of the following areas:
Programming language (e.g., C, C++, Java, Python, or Go)
Note: The 3 years total of specialized software engineering experience may have been gained through education and full-time work experience, additional training, coursework, research, or similar (OR some combination of these). The years of specialized experience are not necessarily in addition to the years of Education & full-time work experience indicated.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of total software development experience
- Extensive experience with fast-pace metrics-driven product iterations with strong reliability guardrails
- Experience in crafting and developing large-scale distributed systems and scalable backend services that powers fast-pace product iterations using a microservices architecture
- Extensive experience working in a fast-changing, groundbreaking domain.
- Background in transportation and/or autonomous vehicle industry
- Extensive experience building modular and scalable solutions that cater to a variety of clients and use cases.
- Extensive experience with product engineering applications of Operations Research and Machine Learning.
- Extensive experience navigating complex cross-functional collaboration: Aside from day-to-day collaboration with product and design counterparts, extensive experience working with business, legal, operations, technical project management, etc to drive consensus.
- Extensive experience working closely with external partner engineering teams and their cross-functional partners.
- Any level of enterprise mobile engineering experience
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $202,000 per year - USD $224,000 per year.
For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $202,000 per year - USD $224,000 per year.
For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.
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Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.
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