ML Software Engineer, ETA

Lyft

San Francisco, UShybrid$141k-$176k/yrPosted Jul 20, 2026
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Skills

kubernetesairflowpythonsparkawsgoml

About the role

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.

We are hiring a Machine Learning Engineer to join our ETA team. Our team builds and maintains Lyft's system responsible for estimating/predicting ETAs for every ride request on our platform. ETAs play a critical role in matching decisions, pricing estimates and overall user experience. Low latency, high reliability and high accuracy are paramount for our success.

If you are a critical thinker with experience in machine learning workflows and writing reliable code, passionate about solving business problems using data and working in a dynamic, creative, and collaborative environment, we are searching for you.

Our technology stack runs on AWS, Kubernetes, Go, Spark, Python and Apache Airflow. In this role, you will work with incredibly passionate and talented colleagues from software engineering, machine learning and data science on building rideshare experiences that delight millions of riders and drivers.

Responsibilities:

Perform data analysis and build proof-of-concept to explore and compare ML and non-ML solutions

Be able to make effective tradeoffs between model accuracy, its productization complexity and runtime performance

Develop statistical, machine learning, or optimization models

Write production quality code that can scale well to serve millions of requests per day

Participate in code reviews, design reviews, production on-call support and incident triaging process.

Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code

Experience:

B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or other quantitative fields or related work experience

3+ years of Machine Learning experience

Nice-to-have: Experience with big data processing / distributed data pipelines and tools such as Apache Airflow and Spark

Ability to work in distributed teams spread across time zones. (North America and Europe)

Benefits:

Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled

Mental health benefits

Family building benefits

Child care and pet benefits

401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future

In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off

18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible

Subsidized commuter benefits

Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership

Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule - Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $140,800 - $176,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.

Compensation

This Software Engineer role pays $141k-$176k/yr. Within typical range for software engineer roles in United States.

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