Predictive Modeling Engineer - People Processes

Apple

  • Austin, TX
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 month ago
At Apple, our greatest resource is our people, and the People Analytics Team is dedicated to ensuring Apple's employees are able to do the best work of their lives. Our team is looking for a data scientist who is passionate about crafting, implementing, and operating analytical solutions that have direct and measurable impact to Apple and its employees. As a data scientist on our team, you will employ predictive modeling, statistical analysis, and advanced analytics techniques to support solutions for talent management, employee surveys, compensation, and recruiting. Apple's dedication to privacy, the human-centric nature of our work, and the scale of our business present exciting challenges to traditional machine learning and data science methods. On this team, you will push the limits of existing data science methods while delivering tangible business value.Key Qualifications Key Qualifications
  • Practical experience with and theoretical understanding of algorithms for classification, regression, clustering, and anomaly detection
  • Proficiency in writing SQL queries involving database joins and analytical/window functions
  • Ability to implement data science pipelines, analyses, and applications in a programming language such as Python or R
  • Prior experience working with employee data or HR systems
  • Experience with natural language processing (sentiment, topic identification, summarization, entity extraction) and network analysis a plus.
  • Ability to translate business processes and data into an analytic solution.
  • Ability to comprehend and debug complex systems integrations spanning multiple toolchains and teams
  • Ability to extract meaningful business insights from data and identify the stories behind the patterns
  • Excellent presentation skills, distilling complex analysis and concepts into concise business-focused takeaways
  • Creativity to engineer novel features and signals, and to push beyond current tools and approaches
Description DescriptionA data scientist on our team will engage with our business partners to understand their problems, design data-driven solutions, and produce proof-of-concept and prototype solutions. They will collaborate with engineers and system architects to implement these solutions in a production environment, and be responsible for the ongoing analytic operation of these solutions. - Design data science approach, applying tried-and-true techniques or developing custom algorithms as needed by the business problem - Collaborate with data engineers and platform architects to implement real-time and batch decisioning solutions in production - Ensure operational and business metric health by monitoring production decision points - Develop metrics to measure performance of analytics solutions, and regularly communicate results to business partners and executives - Research new technologies and methods across data science, data engineering, and data visualization to improve the technical capabilities of the teamEducation & Experience Education & ExperiencePh.D. in I-O Psychology, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or Statistics. Or a Ph.D. in related scientific or technical field (I-O Psychology, Economics, Engineering, Physics, etc.) with a data science fellowship or prior professional experience as a data scientist. Or MS with 5+ years of professional experience applying data science to real-world business problems

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