Senior Data Scientist - Delivery Tech

The role

You will lead data-driven models that improve the delivery experience for customers and delivery partners on the Gopuff platform. Your work covers dispatch optimization, delivery routing and ETAs, driver pricing and incentives, and the delivery partner experience.

What you will do

• Design, build and iterate on algorithmic delivery fee strategies.
• Develop optimization and ML approaches to order batching, assignment and routing.
• Build accurate demand forecasts at location and time granularity.
• Design and analyze experiments, including A/B, switchback and geo/market-level tests, and use causal inference to measure impact.
• Own solutions end to end: frame the problem, build models, deploy with engineering, then monitor and improve them.
• Partner with product, engineering, operations and finance to turn business questions into technical objectives.
• Find new opportunities for ML, optimization and causal inference from customers, delivery partners and data.

Required qualifications

• MS or PhD in Operations Research, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, with 2+ years in delivery, logistics, marketplace or pricing problems (or 8+ yea
• Strong background in at least two of: pricing/revenue optimization, mathematical optimization, time-series and demand forecasting, experimentation and causal inference.
• Hands-on experience designing experiments in two-sided or operational marketplaces (switchback or cluster-randomized designs, variance reduction).
• Proven ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical objectives and measurable results.
• Expertise in machine learning and statistics.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL and source control; experience shipping models to production with engineering teams.

Nice to have

• Experience in on-demand delivery, ride-hailing or gig-economy marketplaces.
• Familiarity with optimization solvers (e.g., OR-Tools, Gurobi) and forecasting libraries.
• Experience with ETA prediction or driver incentive and pay design.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• HSA or FSA eligibility
• Long and short-term disability insurance
• Fitness reimbursement program
• 25% employee discount and FAM membership
• Flexible PTO
• Group life insurance
• EAP through AllOne Health (formerly Carebridge)
• Discretionary annual cash bonus
• Equity incentive plan participation

Before you apply

• Starting pay is set by job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance and market conditions.
• Pay may vary by location; the posted range is what the company expects to pay candidates.

About the company

Gopuff is a high-growth startup revolutionizing hyper-local instant e-commerce. It warehouses and delivers tens of thousands of products to customers' doors quickly.