Research Scientist, Societal Impact (Core Data Science)

Meta Platforms, Inc.
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Job Description

Our team’s mission is to “Understand and Improve our Impact on Society. Our team is looking for a research scientist that can help us to drive this mission. Facebook is committed to tackling big societal questions, like social cohesion, polarization, institutional trust, and equal opportunity. We are the social scientists dedicated to addressing these research questions via computational social science.

Research Scientist, Societal Impact (Core Data Science) Responsibilities

  • Work with large amounts of data in service of concrete conclusions and actionable insights
  • Communicate complicated technical topics and nuanced insights to diverse audiences
  • Learn new tools and languages quickly as required by the particular project you are working on, with tasks ranging from data processing to production engineering to modeling and machine learning
  • Work both independently and collaboratively with other scientists, engineers, designers, UX researchers, and product managers to accomplish complex tasks that deliver demonstrable value to Facebook's community of over 1.7 billion users
  • Think creatively, proactively, and futuristically to identify new opportunities within Facebook's long-term roadmap for data-scientific contributions

Minimum Qualifications

  • Experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches
  • Experience manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying source
  • Proven knowledge in empirical research and in answering hard questions with data
  • Proven analytical approach in past work
  • Experience communicating 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
  • Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
  • Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a PhD, in Statistics, Economics, Political Science, or related field

Company Info.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Meta Platforms (formerly known as Facebook Inc.) is a large technology company that was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and several of his college roommates. The company is based in Menlo Park, California, and is primarily known for its flagship social media platform, Facebook. In addition to its consumer-facing products, Meta Platforms also offers a range of advertising and marketing services to businesses and organizations.

  • Industry
    Advertising,Consumer electronics,Social media Company,Artificial intelligence
  • No. of Employees
    76,000
  • Location
    1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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