Data Scientist, Identity Research & Modeling

Company:

Facebook

• Work closely with a product team to help them leverage identity modeling
• Research methods to improve inferences of attributes in our identity models
• Develop new user models and work closely with engineering teams to integrate them into Facebook products
• Perform studies to gain deeper understanding of how people use Facebook products
• Drive the collection of new data and the refinement of existing data sources

• Ph.D. in a relevant technical field Comfort manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources
• A passion for deeper understanding of people and how they interact with the world through digital means
• A flexible analytic approach that allows for results at varying levels of precision
• Ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner
• Fluency with at least one scripting language such as Python or PHP
• Familiarity with relational databases and SQL-like query languages
• Expert knowledge of an analysis tool such as R, or Matlab
• One or more of
• Expertise in text mining, NLP methods, information extraction and/or machine learning
• Expertise in user modeling
• Expertise in social psychology and computational social science
• Experience working with distributed computing tools a plus (Hadoop, Hive, etc.)

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