Data Scientist II - AMZ6082577

San Francisco, California, USA

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Company: GOODREADS LLC

Position Title: Data Scientist II

Location: San Francisco, California


Position Responsibilities:

Design and implement scalable and reliable approaches to support or automate decision making throughout the business. Apply a range of data science techniques and tools combined with subject matter expertise to solve difficult business problems and cases in which the solution approach is unclear. Acquire data by building the necessary SQL / ETL queries. Import processes through various company-specific interfaces for accessing Oracle, RedShift, and Spark storage systems. Build relationships with stakeholders and counterparts. Analyze data for trends and input validity by inspecting univariate distributions, exploring bivariate relationships, constructing appropriate transformations, and tracking down the source and meaning of anomalies. Build models using statistical modeling, mathematical modeling, econometric modeling, network modeling, social network modeling, natural language processing, machine learning algorithms, genetic algorithms, and neural networks. Validate models against alternative approaches, expected and observed outcome, and other business defined key performance indicators. Implement models that comply with evaluations of the computational demands, accuracy, and reliability of the relevant ETL processes at various stages of production. Design and analyze A/B tests to quantify impact of customer‐facing changes. Develop innovative experimental design and measurement methodologies to understand customer growth and business efficacy.

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Basic Qualifications


Position Requirements:

Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, Economics, or a related field and one year of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, Economics, or a related field and five years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Master's degree and one year of experience. Must have one year of experience in the following skill(s): (1) building statistical models and machine learning models using large datasets from multiple resources; (2) working with customer, product, or content data modeling and extraction; (3) using database technologies including SQL, ETL, Redshift or Data Lake; (4) applying specialized modelling software including SAS, R, Python, Matlab, or Stata; and (5) working in a Linux or Unix environment; and (6) working with Tableau.

Preferred Qualifications

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Tags: A/B testing Economics ETL Linux Machine Learning Mathematics Matlab ML models NLP Oracle Python R Redshift Research SAS Spark SQL Statistical modeling Statistics Tableau

Perks/benefits: Career development

Region: North America
Country: United States
Job stats:  14  7  0
Category: Data Science Jobs

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