2024 Master Data Scientist Internship

About the Internship

We're looking for a Data Scientist intern to join our Safety and Insurance team to provide data expertise as we work to make this world a safer place to move around.

The team works closely with partners to build new product features, implement machine learning algorithms, and optimize safety policies to help reduce safety incidents and make it safer for riders, drivers, eaters, restaurants, and all people who use Uber’s platform.

This team pursues some of the hardest problems in all of Uber: improving the safety of cities and people all over the world. This position focuses on algorithmic solutions to understanding and improving interpersonal safety.

We use real-time telematics and motion sensing technologies along with machine learning algorithms and user-facing mobile products in order to prevent unsafe behaviors on the Uber platform.

The team’s work touches all parts of the Uber experience from dispatch to on-trip and post-trip, as well as the Uber ecosystem ranging from our rides business to other newer Uber marketplaces, and ventures. In this role, you will get to work closely with our product and design teams to build intuitive experiences and ship efficient, reliable, crash-free code that reaches millions of users.

With #standforsafety being a company priority, our team is uniquely positioned to define what it means to be a safe ride sharing/delivery platform and in the process, making safety a key competitive advantage for our brand.

What You’ll Do

Develop dashboards, pull data for analysis, build readouts for scientific experiments, opportunity sizing analyses, rule creation, review work by team members, and present results to the team.

Basic Qualifications

• Written and spoken proficiency in English and Portuguese
• Currently enrolled in a Master degree with graduation for July 2025
• Availability to work at least 1 year full time in 2024 starting in July (flexible start date) in Sao Paulo city.
• Working rights in Brazil (no sponsorship available)
• Skills in Analytics, SQL, Python, dashboarding, and Statistics

Bonus points if:

• See the forest and the trees: Strong data analytics, you know the details that matter
• Trip obsessed: Taking time to establish effective relationships, you earn the trust of others within Uber through strong situational awareness and reliability
• One Uber: You demonstrate optimism, respect others and work well in a team
• Go get it: Understanding and being fully aware of how our business operates and how it makes money and sustains profitable growth, now and in the future
• Great minds don’t think alike: diversity of thought in teams makes us stronger.
• Bonus points for experimentation (e.g. A/B testing)

Internships @ Uber

You have the chance to create a global impact - we're moving real people and assets and reinventing transportation and logistics. We offer expansive mentorship from Uber employees to guide you through your internship experience and for you to build personal networks and friendships with hardworking people who share your passion for technology.