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Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta), formerly known as Facebook Inc., builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps and services like Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Novi further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. To apply, click “Apply to Job” online on this web page.
Data Scientist, Analytics Responsibilities
  • 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
  • Inform, influence, support, and execute our product decisions and product launches
  • 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
  • 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
  • Influence product teams through the presentation of data-based recommendations, communicate state of business and experiment results to product teams, spread best practices to analytics and product teams, and lead cross-functionally on defining and executing on analyses, including across other data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, user researchers, among other
  • Work in Hadoop, Hive, MySQL, Oracle, and Vertica, and automate analyses and authoring pipelines via SQL and Python-based ETL frameworks
Minimum Qualifications
  • Master of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Analytics, or a related field. 36 months of experience In the job offered or in a related occupation. Experience must include 36 months of experience in the following skills and technologies:
  • Machine learning techniques
  • Working with large data sets and network-based data including TCP or HTTP
  • ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes
  • Relational databases including SQL or PL*SQL
  • Developing in scripting language: Python
  • Statistical analysis using R
  • Statistical analysis using SAS
  • Quantitative analysis techniques including clustering, regression, and pattern recognition
  • Quantitative analysis techniques including descriptive and inferential statistics
  • Commanding and presenting results of data analyses
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Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
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