Data Scientist

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Menlo Park, CA

Data Scientist role focused on identifying data patterns and trends, collecting, organizing, interpreting, and summarizing statistical data to contribute to product design and development. Involves quantitative analysis, data mining, and presenting data to understand user interactions. Partners with Product and Engineering teams to solve problems and inform product decisions. Projects may cover product operations, exploratory analysis, product influence, and data infrastructure.

What you'd actually do

  1. Devise methods for identifying data patterns and trends.
  2. Collect, organize, interpret, and summarize statistical data in order to contribute to the design and development of company products.
  3. Identify data patterns.
  4. Apply expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how users interact with both consumer and business products.
  5. Partner with Product and Engineering Teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities.

Skills

Required

  • SQL
  • Python
  • R, SAS, or Matlab
  • Applied statistics or experimentation, such as A/B testing
  • ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes
  • Relational databases
  • Large-scale data processing infrastructures using distributed systems
  • Quantitative analysis techniques, including one of the following: clustering, regression, pattern recognition, or descriptive and inferential statistics