Sr Staff Engineer - Autonomous Mobility & Delivery

**About the Role** The Autonomous Mobility & Delivery (AM&D) team is pioneering Uber’s autonomous future in Rides and Eats. As we advance toward a world of autonomous and human-driven vehicles coexisting, Uber is building a hybrid marketplace that integrates autonomous vehicles seamlessly into mobility and delivery, ensuring reliability, efficiency, and scalability. Our work spans nearly every Uber service. Over the past year, we’ve partnered with leading Autonomous Vehicle OEMs, successfully integrating autonomous vehicles into Mobility and Delivery. Looking forward, we anticipate substantial growth and seek a Sr Staff Engineer to help drive this journey. This role will help shape Uber’s autonomous platform vision to streamline the integration across autonomous OEMs, enhance hybrid marketplace simulation capabilities, and improve the data pipelines and metrics reporting throughout the program. **What You Will Do** - Set architecture vision across the organization. Partner with product and business stakeholders to craft and deliver on tech that drives meaningful business impact for Uber and its customers - Lead, build and scale the AM&D platform initiative, which spans across the API gateway platform, Simulation Platform, and Data pipeline and reporting charters - Provide technical mentorship, guidance, and coaching to other engineers, fostering a high-performing and innovative engineering culture - Drive the design, development, and deployment of critical platform components, focusing on reliability, extensibility, and seamless integration across multiple product surfaces - Collaborate with cross-company and cross-functional teams to ensure platform alignment with broader business goals **Basic Qualifications** - PhD or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field **AND** 4-years full-time Software Engineering work experience **OR** 7-years full-time Software Engineering work experience, **WHICH INCLUDES** 4-years total technical software engineering experience in one or more of the following areas: - Programming language (e.g. C, C++, Java, Python, or Go) - _Note the 4-years total of specialized software engineering experience may have been gained through education and full-time work experience, additional training, coursework, research, or similar (OR some combination of these).  The years of specialized experience are not necessarily in addition to the years of Education & full-time work experience indicated._ - Past experience in developing large-scale, distributed systems - Strong understanding of technical architecture, system design, and problem solving acuity for sophisticated technical challenges - Proven track record of leading and scaling high-impact product platform initiatives. Strong technical expertise with deep knowledge of platform architecture, microservices, and best practices for building resilient, scalable systems - Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional partners to drive business outcomes through a platform approach **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience in building API platforms, data platforms, simulation or other foundational product platforms that serve multiple product teams - Experience in optimizing multiple-sided marketplace - Familiarity with Autonomous or Mobility or Delivery Systems, and understand challenges unique to the autonomous or mobility or delivery industries - Passionate about shaping the future of autonomous delivery and driving innovation in the industry For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$257,000 per year - USD$285,500 per year. You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link [https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits](https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits). Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing [this form](https://forms.gle/aDWTk9k6xtMU25Y5A). Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber’s cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.