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Own Lyft’s autonomous vehicle Safety Management System across policy, risk management, assurance, and promotion. Responsibilities include authoring safety policies, conducting risk assessments, tracking corrective actions, analyzing safety indicators, coordinating audits, running the Safety Review Board, engaging AV partners, and delivering safety readiness programs for launches and integrations.

Lead architecture and technical strategy for Lyft’s luxury ride-sharing systems across backend, frontend, iOS, and Android. Own technical roadmaps, cross-team dependencies, system reliability, observability, performance, and deployment practices for highly available distributed systems. Influence product and operations decisions, mentor engineers, conduct interviews, and drive engineering excellence across the organization.

Lead lifecycle marketing strategy and experimentation across email, push, SMS and in-app. Design tests, prioritize roadmap, partner with Product/Engineering/Data teams, own reporting, and drive creative and incentive strategies to increase rider and driver engagement and retention.

Manages commercial insurance program renewals, advises internal teams on risk and coverage, coordinates with brokers and carriers, negotiates insurance terms, tracks coverage and rates, and supports certificates, policy reviews, submissions, and stewardship meetings.

Develop and deploy dynamic pricing and offer-selection models using statistical, machine learning, and optimization techniques. Analyze large datasets, conduct simulated and live experiments, evaluate causal and observational results, and communicate recommendations to Product, Engineering, and executive stakeholders. Collaborate cross-functionally to formalize business problems, write production code, and influence pricing roadmaps.

Conduct an open-ended machine learning research project tied to Lyft products. Responsibilities include developing and evaluating reinforcement learning, personalization, and sequential decision-making models; building production-quality ML pipelines; analyzing experiments; collaborating with product and technical teams; communicating findings; and preparing research for publication.

Develop LLM-based Rider Agents and agent-based simulations that model rider behavior. Build evaluation pipelines to measure simulation fidelity against human data and historical experiments, analyze emergent behaviors, conduct ablation studies, and apply simulations to product experimentation and iteration. Communicate findings to science, engineering, and product partners.

Design, train, and deploy time-series forecasting and real-time ML models to generate marketplace supply and demand signals. Collaborate with engineers, PMs, and business partners to frame problems, perform exploratory data analysis, implement production model code, run backtests and live experiments, monitor model health, and scale tooling to improve marketplace efficiency.

Manage Flexdrive’s autonomous vehicle operating-readiness program by maintaining timelines, RAID logs, readiness roadmaps, scorecards, and documentation. Coordinate infrastructure, hiring, fleet operations, finance, treasury, legal, analytics, and other workstreams to align dependencies and meet deployment milestones. Support leadership reviews, escalate risks, improve processes, and develop scalable market-readiness playbooks for domestic and international AV fleet operations.

Leads strategic advertising sales for Lyft Media, managing major agency and marketing-client relationships, growing revenue, developing media packages, building sales pipelines, and closing new business. The role requires executive-level client engagement, account planning, product education, cross-functional collaboration, issue resolution, and independent ownership of sales goals across digital advertising offerings.