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Research Scientist - Demography and Survey Sciences

Meta

$206,000 - $281,000
Sep 10, 2025
Menlo Park, CA, USA
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Improve the way Meta makes decisions and measures impact by collecting and analyzing rich survey and behavioral datasets to understand new challenges, solve problems, and shape decisions.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of data manipulation and analysis software and programming languages (R/Stata, SQL/Hive)
  • Knowledge of quantitative and survey research methodologies (e.g., bias correction for surveys, survey sampling and design, regression modeling, causal inference with a survey outcome, shrinkage and regularization, designing and analyzing longitudinal panel surveys, behavioral data analysis)
  • Demonstrated experience in designing original research to address complex questions
  • Expertise with weighting/bias correction for surveys and survey sampling
  • Expertise with time series analysis and/or repeated cross-sectional analysis
  • Familiarity with R and SQL for statistical analysis
  • Generally solid quantitative research skills such as: linear regression, maximum likelihood estimation (e.g., logistic regression, probit), causal inference

Responsibilities

  • Deploy appropriate quantitative methodologies to answer those questions
  • Develop novel approaches where traditional methods won’t do
  • Provide teams with usable measurement strategies and methodologies to meet their product and business decision needs
  • Analyze data
  • Communicate results to broad audiences in order to drive impactful decisions
  • Own research end-to-end
  • Navigate trade-offs while designing projects, proposing appropriate methodologies

Other

  • Help shape the research agenda and drive research projects from end-to-end
  • Collaborate with product teams to define relevant questions about survey methodology and quantitative measurement
  • Experience communicating analyses and results to any audience
  • Demonstrated communication skills
  • Experience making research design choices that balance competing tradeoffs effectively