Senior Data Scientist
Meta
Data Science
Menlo Park, CA, USA
USD 223,021-235,400 / year + Equity
Posted on Jul 30, 2025
Senior Data Scientist
Menlo Park, CA • Full Time
Meta
Data & Analytics
Data Science
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta), formerly known as Facebook Inc., builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps and services like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. To apply, click “Apply to Job” online on this web page.
Senior Data Scientist Responsibilities
- Works on complex projects where analysis of situations and decision making requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
- Receives directional guidance
- Work is done independently, reviewed upon completion, and influences team level goals and objectives.
- Influences outcomes in cross functional settings.
- Contributes to community through organizational efforts to build and sustain diversity, culture, recruitment, onboarding, mentoring, and/or development programs.
- Networks with key internal and external contacts and uses persuasion in delivering messages, mostly within own area of expertise and sometimes outside.
- Advises team and XFN partners on complex matters in a product/business area.
- Takes a broad perspective to problems and exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
- Engages leaders to gain buy-in and support for a new direction or opportunity.
- Contributes to setting team level goals.
- Identifies, explains, and acts on own strengths and development needs.
Minimum Qualifications
- Requires a Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent degree) in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Applied Sciences, or a related field and 1 year of experience in the job offered or in a computer-related occupation.
- Experience must include 1 year of experience in the following:
- 1. Performing quantitative analysis including data mining on highly complex data sets
- 2. Data querying language: SQL
- 3. Scripting language: Python
- 4. Statistical or mathematical software including one of the following: R, SAS, or Matlab
- 5. Applied statistics or experimentation, such as A/B testing, in an industry setting
- 6. Machine learning techniques
- 7. ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes
- 8. Relational databases and
- 9. Quantitative analysis techniques, including one of the following: clustering, regression, pattern recognition, or descriptive and inferential statistics.
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About Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
$223,021/year to $235,400/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.
Equal Employment Opportunity
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