Senior Data Scientist

Amplitude Amplitude · Data AI · San Francisco, CA · Engineering : Blades

Senior Data Scientist role at Amplitude, an AI analytics platform, focusing on the Experiment team. The role involves applying advanced statistical methodologies and machine learning to product analytics and user behavior modeling, with a focus on causal effects, time series, and Bayesian methods. The candidate will also interact with customers as a trusted advisor.

What you'd actually do

  1. Innovating and implementing machine learning and data mining algorithms on distributed platforms to solve real-world product analytics and user behavior modeling problems.
  2. Analyzing experiments that have social network effects (ex: difference in differences, Switchback, Synthetic Control)
  3. Causal effects modeling or heterogeneous treatment effects analysis
  4. Time Series modeling
  5. Bayesian hypothesis testing

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • SQL
  • Spark/Hadoop
  • Data pipelines
  • Data Science
  • Experimentation
  • Digital product optimization
  • Mathematics
  • Statistics

Nice to have

  • Masters or Ph.D. degree in computer science, mathematics or related areas
  • Communicating with customers as a trusted advisor

What the JD emphasized

  • extensive research/project experience in data science, experimentation, digital product optimization, math, statistics, etc.
  • built and extensively used data pipelines
  • In-depth experience with Spark/Hadoop
  • 2+ years of experience working as a Data Scientist
  • familiar with the Experimentation space
  • hands-on experience using experimentation products

Other signals

  • AI Agents embedded across platform
  • machine learning for experimentation agenda
  • Innovating and implementing machine learning and data mining algorithms