Research Scientist Manager, Statistics & Privacy - Applied Cryptography

Research Scientist Manager, Statistics & PrivacyOur Statistics and Privacy team focuses on establishing step-change improvements to advance Facebook’s long-term business growth. The team's expertise spans many domains including statistics, economics, machine learning and cryptography. We develop methodologies, design and prototype solutions, and partner across Facebook to launch these solutions such that 3 billion people, 200 million businesses, and 10 million advertisers can benefit. Examples include experimentation platforms, ranking and recommender systems, and privacy-enhancing technologies.

Facebook seeks an industry-experienced Research Science leader to join Statistics & Privacy. This managerial role is designed specifically for a Research Science leader to remain hands-on for technical and scientific development, while also directly supporting a team of research scientists, and leading on a small set of org-level capacity-building responsibilities. Cutting-edge applied research necessitates identification and evaluation of new research opportunities, and development of scientifically rigorous systems. Research scientists drive forward prototypes and methodologies, and build consensus with engineering stakeholders as to the scientific and strategic merit of our initiatives. This role will focus on leveraging privacy-enhancing technologies such as multi-party computation, homomorphic encryption, federated analytics, and differential privacy to develop privacy-focused advertising solutions (private record-linkage, fraud prevention, experimentation platforms, and collaborative inference) — all while maintaining performance at massive scale.