Senior Applied Scientist (Researcher) – Pricing

London · On-site

About this role

Senior Applied Scientist (Researcher) – Pricing

Department: Analytics Department

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: United Kingdom



Description

We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist (Pricing) to design and evolve dynamic pricing systems for our marketplace. You will develop pricing as a feedback-driven decision system, balancing supply, demand, and business outcomes under uncertainty and delayed signals. Unlike traditional surge-based pricing, our marketplace operates on a unique bid-based pricing model, where prices are shaped through direct negotiation between riders and drivers. This creates a fundamentally different optimization problem, requiring advanced approaches to modeling user behavior, incentives, and marketplace dynamics.


Key Responsibilities

  • Design and improve dynamic pricing policies, including elasticity and supply/demand response modeling
  • Frame pricing as a decision system under uncertainty and delayed feedback
  • Develop, test, and deploy real-time pricing algorithms
  • Design and analyze A/B experiments to evaluate pricing impact
  • Productionize models in collaboration with engineering, ensuring scalability and robustness
  • Monitor system performance, including stability, feedback effects, and long-term behavior
  • Contribute to methodological choices (e.g., optimization, control, RL-inspired approaches)



Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

  • 3+ years of experience in Data Science, Applied Research, or algorithmic product optimization, preferably in marketplaces or pricing systems
  • Strong background in statistics, optimization, and causal inference
  • Proven ability to move from problem formulation to production-grade solutions
  • Proficiency in Python, SQL, and experience with production ML systems

Nice to Have
  • Experience with economic modeling (elasticity, auctions, policy design)
  • Familiarity with control systems, RL, or online optimization
  • Experience working with real-time, high-load systems


Why join us

  • Help us challenge injustice by creating fair choices for millions of people across 1100+ cities in 48 countries
  • Develop your professional skills with access to mentoring, career consulting, and learning programs
  • Collaborate with teams around the world and gain international experience through our Global Talent Exchange Program
  • Engage in company-wide challenges, awards, sports activities, employee-led social impact and volunteering projects
  • Work alongside people who take initiative, speak openly, and challenge themselves to grow
  • Improve your language skills through co-financed courses and internal speaking clubs
Final benefits may vary depending on the location.

Company at a glance

inDrive is a global mobility and urban services platform. The inDrive app has been downloaded over 400 million times, and is the second most downloaded mobility app globally for the third consecutive year. In addition to ride-hailing, inDrive provides an expanding list of urban services, including intercity transportation and delivery. In 2023, inDrive launched New Ventures, a venture and M&A arm.

inDrive operates in over 1200+ cities in 48 countries.

inDrive’s Purpose and Supermission: We Challenge Injustice Through Fair Choices.

Injustice is to the inequality of opportunities and abuse of power by corporations, society and individuals.

inDrive’s strategic goal: Provide choice for 1+ billion people through business and non-profit initiatives. The company pursues this goal both through its core business, which supports local communities via a fair pricing model; and through the work of inVision, its non-profit arm. inVision’s community empowerment programs help to advance education, sports, arts and sciences, gender equality and other vital initiatives.

For more information visit www.inDrive.com

Team Size1,001-5,000 employees
WorkspaceOn-site
IndustryIT Services and IT Consulting
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
LinkedInLinkedIn

Top Benefits

  • Mentoring
  • Career consulting
  • Learning programs
  • Global Talent Exchange Program
  • Company-wide challenges
  • Awards
  • Sports activities
  • Employee-led social impact projects
  • Volunteering projects
  • Co-financed language courses
  • Internal speaking clubs

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