PayPal Data Scientist 

United States, California, San Jose 

785320173

Job Description:

Minimum Requirements: Masters’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Mathematics, Statistics, Analytics, or closely related field plus two years experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

Special Skill Requirements:

1. Natural Language Processing and Sentiment Analysis, Tokenization

2. Design of Experiments - Analysis of Variance, Analysis of Covariance

3. Causal Inference for Quasi Experiments - Pre-Post Analysis, Difference in Difference (DiD), Propensity Score Matching (PSM), Synthetic Control (Coarsened Exact Matching)

4. Machine Learning & Statistical Modeling – Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forest, Clustering Algorithms - KNN, K-Means, Artificial Neural Network, SVM, Naive Bayes Classification technique, Association Rule Mining

5. Product Analytics - Product Sense, A/B Testing and Experimentation, Data Analysis and Insights

6. Statistics – Descriptive, Probability, Sampling Distributions (Chi Sq, T, F, Z), Hypothesis Testing, Statistical Inference (Non-Parametric Tests)

7. Time Series Forecasting – Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA), Exponential Smoothing (ETS)

8. Tools - Tableau, Looker SQL - Advanced

9. SQL with Window functions (Rank determination, continuous distribution, population variance),

10. Python (Numpy, Pandas, Scikit Learn, Matplotlib, Scipy, web crawling, Plotly), R (ggplot), PySpark

Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Preferred Qualification:

Salary:$148,699.00-204,600.00per annum. 40 hours per week; M-F, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Our Benefits:

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