Data Scientist

About the Team and the Role:

Cloud Data Technologies (CDT) team at eBay is responsible for all the data infrastructure, including experimentation platform and management of end-to-end data lifecycle for all eBay data from onsite to analytics use cases.

We are seeking a Data Scientist who is passionate about driving business impact by utilizing advanced data science methodologies to improve the decision making speed & quality, and produce actionable insights from data.

Some of the projects that you have a chance to work on include: ML driven bot traffic detection, building customer profile, various A/B testing methodology improvements like Interleaving tests, sequential testing, bayesian methods.

What you will accomplish:

• Lead complex data science projects and model development.
• Conduct advanced SQL for big data query optimization.
• Design and implement advanced statistical models and machine learning algorithms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and refine data solution requirements.
• Stay updated on industry developments and suggest new technologies or methodologies.

What you will bring:

• MS degree or PhD (preferred) in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, or equivalent is required.
• 0-3 years industrial experience, preferably in software or system analytics, ecommerce, or financial services will be regarded favorably
• Knowledge of statistical techniques including regression, time series analysis, hypothesis testing, combining disparate data sources.
• Expertise with applying predictive modeling techniques, statistics and information retrieval methods to real-world data
• Hands on experience with SQL/Hive/Spark, data mining and big data query optimization
• Extensive experience with large data sets and data manipulation.
• Knowledge of R, Python, Hadoop is preferred,
• Excellent problem-solving skills and experience in deploying predictive models in production environments.
• Superior communications skills, both verbal and written
• Attention to detail and data accuracy.