Data Scientist

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Menlo Park, CA

Data Scientist role at Meta focused on large-scale data analysis, developing statistical models for various applications, and creating reporting dashboards to track business metrics and provide actionable insights. The role involves working with cross-functional teams to identify insights, make recommendations, and influence business direction, as well as improving tools and techniques.

What you'd actually do

  1. Perform large-scale data analysis and develop effective statistical models for segmentation, classification, optimization, time series, etc.
  2. Design and implement reporting dashboards that track key business metrics and provide actionable insights.
  3. Identify actionable insights, suggest recommendations, and influence the direction of the business by effectively communicating results to cross-functional groups.
  4. Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to proactively create rules and manage decisions.
  5. Prioritize leads so that teams work on the most valuable cases.

Skills

Required

  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Analytics, or a related field
  • Quantitative analysis including data mining on highly complex data sets
  • Data querying language(s) including SQL
  • Applied statistics or experimentation, including A/B testing, in an industry setting
  • Large-scale data processing infrastructures using distributed systems
  • Quantitative analysis techniques, including clustering, regression, pattern recognition, or descriptive and inferential statistics