Machine Learning Engineer in Toronto

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization. With over half a billion rides and counting, Lyft is solving hard problems in a rapidly growing domain with a lot of data and creative solutions in Marketplace, Mapping, Fraud, Growth and beyond.

Our highly motivated Machine Learning Engineers work on challenging problems and define solutions to directly impact various aspects of our core business. If you are a critical thinker with experience in machine learning workflows, passionate about solving business problems using data and working in a dynamic, creative, and collaborative environment, we are searching for you.

As a machine learning engineer, you will be developing and launching the algorithms that power the platform’s core services. The set of problems that we tackle is incredibly diverse, cutting across transportation, economics, forecasting, mapping, personalization, and adaptive control. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about solving problems with data, building reliable ML systems, and is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and collegial environment.

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 to both new and existing problems.
• 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.

Qualifications

• S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or other quantitative fields or related work experience.
• 3+ years of Machine Learning experience.
• Passion for building impactful machine learning models leveraging expertise in one or multiple fields.
• Proficiency in Python, Golang, or other programming language.
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English.
• Strong understanding of Machine Learning methodologies, including supervised learning, forecasting, recommendation systems, reinforcement learning, and multi-armed bandits.

Benefits

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits.
• Mental health benefits.
• Family building benefits.
• Access to a Health Care Savings Account.
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service.
• 4 Floating Holidays each calendar year prorated based off of date of hire.
• 10 paid sick days per year regardless of province.
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.

Lyft proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy. Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind. Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process.