Job Summary The Maps Evaluation Metrics team is looking for a smart, creative, and highly analytical Senior Research Scientist to join a cross functional group of subject matter experts, data scientists, statisticians, and engineers. Key Qualifications · Ability to define data quality metrics/scores that drive continued data quality improvement for Apple Maps · Proven excellence related to more than one of the success factors, below: · Success Factors · Geospatial domain experience with basemap and/or points of interest (POI) data * Understanding of regional variations in map data, products, and services * Content and data model experience for location services such as cartographic maps, POI, geocoding, routing, traffic and other dynamic content Research design experience, for example: * Human judgment research design * Statistics or analytics * Key performance indicator (KPI) definition * Log metrics and A/B testing design Data analysis experience, for example: * Proficiency with analysis tools (such as R/Matlb, GIS, database, crowd sourcing) * Ability to focus and perform detailed exploratory data analysis (EDA) * Data ETL (exract, translate, load) and scrubbing * Scripting or programming * Experience with large datasets * Field validation or collection Description You are ready to dive into a challenge. Embedded and coordinating with engineering, you will determine requirements and design metrics/scores to measure data quality, then track implementation and human-judgment rating progress. You will explore results and report trends/patterns, which focus engineering and data acquisition on improvements that move the needle for Maps customer experience. Education BS, MS, or PhD in quantitative (Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, ...) _or_ map related (Geography, Urban Planning, ...) field For more information & to apply: apple/jobs/us/index.html
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:31:33 +0000
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