Senior Research Data Scientist, DevIE

Senior Staff Research Data Scientist, DevIE

Google – Sunnyvale, CA, USA

• Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• 10 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis.
• Alternatively, 8 years of experience with a PhD degree.

• 12 years of experience in analytics for product or business problems, coding (Python, R, SQL), or 10 years of experience with a PhD degree.

We are looking for a Data Scientist who can work in a rapidly evolving tech landscape with novel methodologies, to generate actionable insights for product teams and leaders. In this role you will engage deeply with Google Deep Mind and the core of Google’s AI capabilities. You will shape investigative directions for Gemini, revealing actionable insights into its integration with Google’s complex software engineering ecosystem.

Additionally, you will drive an understanding of how various agentic capabilities affect software and model development workflows, leveraging these insights to optimize complex systems at a Google scale.

• Collaborate with stakeholders in cross‑project and team settings to identify and clarify business or product questions, and translate them into tractable analysis, evaluation metrics, or mathematical models.
• Design and evaluate models to mathematically express and solve defined problems with limited precedent.
• Gather information, business goals, priorities, and organizational context regarding the questions to answer, including existing and upcoming data infrastructure.
• Own the process of gathering, extracting, and compiling data across sources using relevant tools (SQL, R, Python); format, re‑structure, or validate data to ensure quality and readiness for analysis.

US: $262,000 – $365,000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits.

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English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless otherwise stated.