You absolutely could. I don't work at uber but work at another Big Tech company on a similar team. We have plenty of econometrics grads on our team. Forecasting

You absolutely could. I don't work at uber but work at another Big Tech company on a similar team. We have plenty of econometrics grads on our team. Forecasting is pretty resilient to hype methods, since extrapolating into the future is so hard, there is rarely some treasure trove of data to throw into an ML model to predict the future. The biggest drivers of uncertainty in these problems tend to be unforecastable, so data-hungry models don't offer much (depends on the horizon and specific problem, but this is true as a general rule). I'd say my only observation has been economists who also meet the bar as software engineers are a force to be reckoned with.