Staff Optimization Engineer, Dynamic Pricing
Posted on: 18 Jul 2025
San Francisco, CA
Job Description
About the Role
The mission of the Surge team is to maintain overall marketplace reliability by balancing supply/demand in real-time through dynamic pricing. We build scalable real-time systems to understand the state of the market, forecast future demand, make predictions using ML models, solve network optimization programs, and eventually make pricing decisions for each rider session.
Surge plays a critical role in service of Uber’s mission to make transport accessible. We generate billions of dollars in annual gross bookings for the company by optimizing network efficiency and make a significant contribution to driver earnings. What we do has an outsized impact on our riders because prices and reliability are two of the most important elements of customer experience.
What You'll Do
You will work with a mixed team of Engineers, Operations Researchers, and Economists.
You will build new scalable algorithms for real-time pricing of Ubers products across hundreds of global marketplaces.
You will help set the team's technical direction and roadmap.
You will communicate with leadership, identify new opportunities, and help guide the growth of more junior engineers.
Basic Qualifications
PhD in relevant fields (Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science) with a focus on optimization modeling.
5+ years of industry experience developing algorithms and models for large-scale deployment.
Experience with optimization packages such as Gurobi, CPLEX, and OR Tools.
Experience with two-sided marketplace design, pricing optimization, matching/allocation, etc…
Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with cross-functional partners.
Proficiency in one or more coding languages such as Python, Java, Go, or C++.
Preferred Qualifications
Familiarity with Machine Learning models, experimentation (e.g., A/B testing) and causal inference
Experience with real-time optimization systems (optimization under tight time constraints)
Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers
Experience with creating and defining technical direction and roadmaps
Uber Technologies, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Uber Technologies, Inc. develops and supports proprietary technology applications that enable independent providers of ridesharing, and meal preparation and delivery services to transact with end-users worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Core Platform and Other Bets. Its driver partners provide ridesharing services through a range of vehicles, such as cars, auto rickshaws, motorbikes, minibuses, or taxis, as well as based on the number of riders under the UberBLACK, UberX, UberPOOL, Express POOL, and Uber Bus names; and restaurant and delivery partners provide meal preparation and delivery services under the Uber Eats name.
The company also offers Uber Central, a tool that enables companies to request, manage, and pay for rides for their employees, customers, or partners; and Uber Health, which allows healthcare professionals to arrange rides for patients going to and from the care destinations. In addition, it provides freight transportation services to shippers in the freight industry under the Uber Freight name; leases vehicles to third-parties that use the vehicles to provide ridesharing or eats services through the platforms; and provides access to rides through personal mobility products, including dockless e-bikes and e-scooters under the JUMP name. The company was formerly known as Ubercab, Inc. and changed its name to Uber Technologies, Inc. in February 2011. Uber Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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IndustryTransport/Delivery Services
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No. of Employees22,263+
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