Data Analytics Specialist III - Junior Data Scientist

Data Analytics Specialist III - Junior Data Scientist Department: Community Operations Team: Community Operations Location: Krakow, Poland Type: Full-Time **Junior Data Scientist** Uber is looking for a Junior Data Scientist to expand its Team in Krakow. The Krakow Center of Excellence is taking a new highway to become a major Technology Hub in Central & Eastern Europe, focusing on Data Science, Data Analytics & Automation. **About the role** As a Junior Data Scientist, you will get involved on projects that encompass the foundational principles of data science, such as Machine Learning, Experimentation, Statistical Modeling and Causal Inference. Most of your actions will hinge on these core and essential activities: aligning on business objectives, formulating problem statements, collecting, cleaning and structuring data, conducting analytical explorations, applying techniques for inferential and predictive modeling and effectively communicating outcomes. You will work on projects of varying sizes and time horizons, aligning your prioritizations with the Operations Coordinator. You will translate business questions into testable hypotheses and rigorous experimental designs, or into mathematical models and ML algorithms. You will deliver your work iteratively and incrementally, ensuring i) your code follows the best practices in terms of quality, reusability, optimization, ii) your analyses are robust, valid, reliable, scalable and impactful, iii) your deliverables are properly maintained and adapted to evolving requirements. You will investigate opportunities in various topics, such as: Market Expansion with randomized controlled trials (RCTs) or ML models for product launch; Market Health models or DnD models for policy evaluation; Audits with regression discontinuity design (RDD) or reinforcement control learning for auditing threshold; Document Processing with natural language processing (NLP) or optical character recognition (OCR) for document classification. **About the Team** Backing Uber’s creativity with operational efficiency. This is the Team’s mission statement. On request of Local, Central, Reg