Drimva

Databricks

Staff Data Scientist

$192K–$260K

San Francisco, California · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2021

Experience
7+ years in data science, machine learning, or advanced analytics.
Education
MS or Ph.D. in a quantitative field.

About the job

Leads data science initiatives and develops data-driven products and insights to address Databricks’ product and business challenges.

What you'll do

  • Lead work in areas such as segmentation, recommendation systems, forecasting, product analytics, and churn prediction; use product data to inform decisions and forecasts.
  • Manage stakeholders, project requirements, OKRs, milestones, and communication of results; mentor junior data scientists.
  • Build self-service internal data products and represent data science across the organization and at conferences.

What they ask for

  • 7+ years of data science, machine learning, or advanced analytics experience in high-velocity, high-growth companies.
  • Extensive experience developing and deploying data-driven products end to end to solve business problems.
  • Strong coding skills in Scala or Python; proficiency in SQL and experience with distributed data processing systems such as Spark.
  • MS or Ph.D. in a quantitative field.

Pay

$192,000 — $260,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Scala, Python, R, Spark, SQL

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