Education AI Data Scientist — Learning Frontiers

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

Job summary

Google is seeking a Research Data Scientist for the Learning Frontiers team to combine foundational AI research with pedagogy-driven product experiences. You will help measure learning impact and guide experiments across Google surfaces such as Gemini, Search, YouTube, and NotebookLM to support learners on their journeys.

The role blends rigorous analysis with creative problem solving, diving into logs to identify educational intent, define user personas, and bridge research goals with product

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a quantitative field.
• 3 years of work experience with analytics to solve product or business problems; coding in Python, R, SQL.
• 3 years of experience in data analysis with statistical modeling or hypothesis testing.
• Experience creating data visualizations and communicating 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

Python

SQL

R

Statistics

Data visualization

Education

Master's degree

Tools

Data pipelines

Documentation

Job description

Google is seeking a Research Data Scientist for the Learning Frontiers team to combine foundational AI research with pedagogy-driven product experiences. You will help measure learning impact and guide experiments across Google surfaces such as Gemini, Search, YouTube, and NotebookLM to support learners on their journeys.

The role blends rigorous analysis with creative problem solving, diving into logs to identify educational intent, define user personas, and bridge research goals with product