Data Scientist

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Menlo Park, CA

Data Scientist role at Meta focused on building machine learning systems for user behavior analysis and powering production systems. Requires a Master's degree and experience in ML techniques, scripting languages, statistical analysis, large-scale data processing, and quantitative analysis.

What you'd actually do

  1. Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how Meta users interact with our consumer and business products.
  2. Mine massive amounts of data and perform large-scale data analysis to extract useful business insights.
  3. Develop data pipelines with automated, machine-learning systems that convert noisy core datasets into powerful signals of user behavior.
  4. Building models of user behaviors for analysis or to power production systems.
  5. Partner with Product and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities.

Skills

Required

  • Machine learning techniques
  • Python
  • R
  • Hadoop
  • Hive
  • MapReduce
  • MPI
  • clustering
  • regression
  • pattern recognition
  • descriptive and inferential statistics

Nice to have

  • PHP
  • Perl
  • MATLAB
  • SPSS
  • SAS
  • Statistical analysis
  • Quantitative analysis techniques
  • Data mining
  • Data presentation
  • Large scale data processing infrastructures using distributed systems

Other signals

  • Develop data pipelines with automated, machine-learning systems that convert noisy core datasets into powerful signals of user behavior.
  • Building models of user behaviors for analysis or to power production systems.