Research Data Scientist, YouTube Gaming Discovery

Research Data Scientist, You Tube Gaming Discovery

You Tube Data Science influences and informs You Tube’s product and engineering leadership. The Gaming Discovery team helps gamers find You Tube content whether it's videos about gaming or Playables (mini‑games playable within the You Tube app).

• Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering or a related quantitative field.
• 3 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or a PhD degree.

• Experience with machine learning and experiment design principles.
• Experience with recommender systems.

• Collaborate with stakeholders in cross‑project and team settings to identify and clarify business or product questions to answer. Provide feedback to translate and refine business questions into analysis, evaluation metrics or mathematical models.
• Use custom data infrastructure or existing data models. Design and evaluate models to mathematically express and solve defined problems with limited precedent.
• Gather information, business goals, priorities and organizational context around the questions to answer as well as the existing and upcoming data infrastructure.
• Own the process of gathering, extracting and compiling data across sources via relevant tools (e.g., SQL and Python). Format, re‑structure or validate data to ensure quality and review the dataset to ensure it is ready for analysis.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $147,000 - $211,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits

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