Data Scientist, Learning Frontiers — AI for Education

Google; New York (NY); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus target

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google's Learning Frontiers team seeks a Data Scientist to dive into large logs, identify educational intent, define user personas, and evaluate experiments that test pedagogical hypotheses.

You will collaborate across PMs, UX, learning science, and engineering to connect research goals with Google products like Gemini, Search, and NotebookLM, building scalable data pipelines to support deep learning.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a quantitative field as listed.
• 3 years of work experience with analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or a PhD degree.
• 3 years of experience in data analysis, including statistical modeling or hypothesis testing.
• Experience creating data visualizations and communicating technical findings to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Work with large, complex data sets to analyze experiments and interpret results to optimize educational features across Gemini, Search, NotebookLM, experimental products, and solve difficult, non-routine analysis problems.
• Develop and maintain documentation for data pipelines and analysis workflows to ensure research is scalable and reproducible.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis to identify and address gaps in education-related logging and user identification.
• Interact cross-functionally with a wide variety of people and teams. Work closely with engineers to identify opportunities for, design, and assess improvements to google products.
• Own the process of gathering, extracting, and compiling data across sources via relevant tools (e.g., SQL, R, Python). Independently format, re-structure, or validate data to ensure quality, and review the dataset to ensure it is ready for analysis.

Skills

Data analysis

Statistical modeling

Hypothesis testing

Data visualization

Stakeholder communication

Education

Master's degree in Statistics/Math/Quantitative field

PhD degree (preferred)

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Job description

Google's Learning Frontiers team seeks a Data Scientist to dive into large logs, identify educational intent, define user personas, and evaluate experiments that test pedagogical hypotheses.

You will collaborate across PMs, UX, learning science, and engineering to connect research goals with Google products like Gemini, Search, and NotebookLM, building scalable data pipelines to support deep learning.