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PhD Intern, Data Science

🇺🇸USSan Francisco, CAintern$68 - $68 / hour

Recruiter Fit Breakdown & Candid Summary

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This PhD internship at Figma is designed for current doctoral students in quantitative fields seeking to apply rigorous research training to real-world product and business challenges. Candidates

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Standard role matching posting requirements.

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Standard role matching posting requirements.

Role Responsibilities

  • 1Partner with cross-functional teams to turn ambiguous product, platform, or business questions into well-defined data science problems
  • 2Analyze user, product, or business data to uncover insights and recommend actions
  • 3Design and evaluate experiments, metrics, statistical or machine learning models, and analytical frameworks
  • 4Communicate assumptions, tradeoffs, limitations, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical partners
  • 5Own a focused internship project end-to-end, from problem framing and technical execution through final recommendations

Skills Matrix

Must-Have Skills

7 required
Python
General Competency
SQL
Statistics
Machine Learning(ML)
Causal Inference
Experimentation

Nice-to-Have Skills

3 preferred
AI/LLMs(LLM analytics)
Recommendation Systems
Econometrics
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