Search Ads Research Data Scientist
Mountain View, CA, USA$147k - $210kFull-timePosted 3d ago
About the role
Data Scientist role focused on evaluating and improving Google Search Ads products, collaborating with engineers and analysts to apply statistical methods and modeling to product challenges.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders in cross-projects and team settings to identify and clarify business or product questions to answer. Provide feedback to translate and refine business questions into tractable analysis, evaluation metrics, or mathematical models.
- Use custom data infrastructure or existing data models as appropriate, using specialized knowledge. 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 (SQL, R, Python). Format, re-structure, or validate data to ensure quality, and review the dataset to ensure it is ready for analysis.
- Research and develop analysis, forecasting, and optimization methods to improve quality of Google's user facing products.
Qualifications
- 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 in statistical inference.
- Experience in mathematical modeling.
- Experience in applied mathematics.
- Experience in analysis insight.
Skills
Required:AnalyticsPythonSQLStatistics
Nice to have:R
Benefits
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Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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