Applied Scientist

We're building a new team, Applied Science, and we're looking for our first outside hire to design systems where the analytical choices are the product decisions. The team owns the quantitative infrastructure underneath the marketplace: pricing algorithms, auction mechanisms, causal models, metric definitions, and experiment frameworks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative field: economics, statistics, engineering, mathematics, etc or commensurate practical experience.
• Experience building and deploying quantitative models (in applied or research settings)
• Comfort querying data directly (SQL or equivalent)
• Experience designing and analyzing controlled experiments