2025 PhD Software Engineer Intern (Delivery Marketplace & Maps), United States

We're looking for PhD candidates in the machine learning and optimization domain to intern in the Delivery Marketplace and Maps org during summer 2025 (12 weeks). You will be embedded in an engineering team and work closely with other specialists, data scientists, and product managers. As a PhD intern, you will work on an exciting yet bold problem in depth independently, under the supervision of an experienced engineer on that team.

About The Role

At Uber, we work on many ambitious engineering products covering many lines of business as well as the underlying platform technologies that power those businesses. We foster growth and increase profitability of Uber by pushing the frontiers of machine learning, constrained optimization, statistics, data science and economics and developing highly reliable and scalable platforms to accelerate Uber's impact on the transportation industry.

As a PhD software engineer intern, you will have a lot of opportunities to work with product managers, data scientists and, of course, engineers from different teams. You will have an opportunity to learn how to iterate over a product for greater success while demonstrating your area of expertise (machine learning, statistics, constrained optimization, distributed system, etc.). This is a unique opportunity to grow your skills with real-world experience and do highly impactful, yet fun work at the same time. It is an ambitious yet rewarding job!

About The Team

The Delivery Marketplace (Pricing, Logistics) & Maps organization is responsible for building the core technology across mobility and delivery lines of business. These include a diverse set of transformational projects and impactful products ranging from finding the optimal match between jobs and earners in the delivery space to enabling shared rides in mobility as well as bringing autonomous vehicles into Uber platform. The organization is formed of talented teams of engineers and scientists working side by side on the state of the art innovations on routing, ETA, matching objective function, pricing algorithms, and geo-search algorithms at global scale. To achieve these goals, we leverage big data tools and apply advanced machine learning models and signal processing techniques on time series of location data and sensor readings. This organization is also responsible for the experimentation platform that serves the entire Uber.

What You'll Do

• Drive exciting, ambitious, previously unsolved projects from end to end
• Thrive in ambiguous product requirements
• Collaborate with product managers and data scientists closely
• Make data driven decisions, with exceptional execution
• Be motivated to own projects and push them forward with independence
• Most importantly, have a passion to make Uber better for our customers
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program studying machine learning, data mining, artificial intelligence, constrained optimization, statistics, or a related quantitative field
• Candidates must have at least one semester/quarter of their education left following the internship
• Knowledge of underlying technical foundations of statistics, machine learning, optimization, or systems etc.
• Experience in one or more object-oriented languages, including C++, Java, Python, or Go
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business partners
• Experience in simplifying/converting business problems into technical problems
• Research mentality with a bias towards action to structure a project from idea to experimentation to prototype to implementation
• Experience presenting at industry recognized academic conferences and a good publishing record
  
  

For New York, NY-based roles: The base hourly rate amount for this role is USD$67.00 per hour. For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base hourly rate amount for this role is USD$67.00 per hour. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base hourly rate amount for this role is USD$67.00 per hour. For all US locations, you will also be eligible for various benefits.

Uber is looking for PhD candidates in the machine learning and optimization domain to intern in the Delivery Marketplace and Maps org during summer 2025 (12 weeks). You will be embedded in an engineering team and work closely with other specialists, data scientists, and product managers. As a PhD intern, you will work on an exciting yet bold problem in depth independently, under the supervision of an experienced engineer on that team.