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Senior Data Scientist II – Core Delivery
Location
California + 18 moreAll locations: California | Colorado | Connecticut | District Of Columbia | Hawaii | Illinois | Maine | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | Oregon | Maryland | Massachusetts | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | Texas | Vermont | Virginia | Washington
Posted
17 days ago
Salary
$182K - $230K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Data Scientist II – Core Delivery
Instacart
• Own analytical frameworks that guide the product roadmap. • Design rigorous experiments and interpret results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions. • Develop statistical models to extract trends, measure results, and predict future performance of our products. • Build simulations to project the impact of various product and policy interventions. • Enable objective decision-making across the company by democratizing data through dashboards and other analytical tools. • Use expertise in causal inference, machine learning, complex systems modeling, behavioral decision theory, etc., to shape the future of Instacart. • Present findings in a compelling way to influence Instacart’s leadership.
Job Requirements
- 7+ years of experience working in a data science or ML role at a product company
- Ability to run rigorous experiments and generate scientifically sound recommendations
- Strong SQL skills for data extraction and transformation from relational databases
- Proficiency in Python or R for data manipulation and statistical analysis, including libraries such as pandas, scikit-learn, or equivalent
- Ability to translate business needs into analytical frameworks.
- Experience with geospatial analysis techniques.
- MS/PhD in Statistics, Economics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
Benefits
- remote work
- candidates may be eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants
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