Data Scientist

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Menlo Park, CA

Data Scientist at Meta focused on understanding user behavior and powering production systems with models. Responsibilities include quantitative analysis, data mining, partnering with product/engineering, defining metrics, building dashboards, and automating pipelines using SQL and Python. Requires a Master's degree and coursework/experience in machine learning, SQL, Python, and statistical 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 our users interact with our consumer and business products
  2. Partner with Product and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities
  3. Inform, influence, support, and execute our product decisions and product launches
  4. Forecast and set product team goals, design and evaluate experiments, monitor key product metrics, understand root causes of changes in metrics, build and analyze dashboards and reports, build key data sets to empower operational and exploratory analysis, and evaluate and define metrics
  5. Propose what-to-build in the next roadmap, understand ecosystems, user behaviors, and long-term trends, identify new levers to help move key metrics, and build models of user behaviors for analysis or to power production systems

Skills

Required

  • Master's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • Graduate-level course, research project, or internship in Machine learning techniques
  • Graduate-level course, research project, or internship in Relational database (SQL or PL*SQL)
  • Graduate-level course, research project, or internship in Developing in Python
  • Graduate-level course, research project, or internship in Statistical analysis using R, SPSS, SAS, and Stata
  • Graduate-level course, research project, or internship in Quantitative analysis techniques: clustering, regression, pattern recognition, and descriptive and inferential statistics
  • Graduate-level course, research project, or internship in Communicating and presenting results of data analyses
  • SQL
  • Python

Nice to have

  • Hadoop
  • Hive
  • MySQL
  • Oracle
  • Vertica

What the JD emphasized

  • Machine learning techniques
  • Quantitative analysis techniques: clustering, regression, pattern recognition, and descriptive and inferential statistics

Other signals

  • build models of user behaviors for analysis or to power production systems
  • Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how our users interact with our consumer and business products
  • Partner with Product and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities