Data Scientist, Analytics (Integrity) Facebook
Seattle, WA

Job Description

We're looking for Data Scientists to work on measuring, detecting, reducing, and preventing negative experiences such as Hate Speech and Fake News in order to ensure that Facebook is a safe and welcoming community.

RESPONSIBILITIES

* The Data Scientist, Analytics (Integrity) role has work across the following four areas:



Data Infrastructure

* Working in Hadoop and Hive primarily, sometimes MySQL, Oracle, and Vertica



Automating analyses and authoring pipelines via SQL and python based ETL framework

Product Operations

* Forecasting and setting product team goals



Designing and evaluating experiments

Monitoring key product metrics, understanding root causes of changes in metrics

Building and analyzing dashboards and reports

Building key data sets to empower operational and exploratory analysis

Evaluating and defining metrics

Exploratory Analysis

* Proposing what to build in the next roadmap



Understanding ecosystems, user behaviors, and long-term trends

Identifying new levers to help move key metrics

Building models of user behaviors for analysis or to power production systems

Product Leadership

* Influencing product teams through presentation of data-based recommendations



Communicating state of business, experiment results, etc. to product teams

Spreading best practices to analytics and product teams

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

* 2+ years experience doing quantitative analysis



BA/BS in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics or other technical field

Experience in SQL or other programming languages

Experience initiating and driving projects to completion with minimal guidance

Experience communicating the results of analyses

Knowledge of statistical analysis

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

* Experience with a statistical package such as R, MATLAB, SPSS, SAS, Stata, etc.



Experience with an Internet-based company

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