Lead Quantitative UX Researcher for AI Infrastructure

Google Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with match

Paid time off

Sick leave

Maternity leave

Baby bonding

Paid holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Quantitative UX Researcher to advance measurement frameworks for AI Enablement, translating complex system telemetry into actionable user insights. You will collaborate with Engineering and Product Management to create industry-leading UX research outcomes.

You will drive empirical studies, log analysis, and regression to uncover product impact, drawing on expertise in Python, statistics, and research design; you will mentor others in a vibrant Quant UXR community and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in product research in an applied research setting.
• Experience in quantitative research, logs analysis, measurement and attribution, data analysis, and metrics analysis.
• Experience researching AI/ML products, Developer APIs, or technical infrastructure.
• Experience in programming languages used for data manipulation and computational statistics (e.g., Python).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement agent-assisted pipelines to parse, audit, and analyze massive-scale system logs (e.g., telemetry, clickstream, operational logs) to accelerate insight generation.
• Define, instrument, and track system-level KPIs, backend performance metrics, and Product Health indicators, aligning them directly with Critical User Journeys.
• Develop custom scripts, prompts, or agentic wrappers (e.g., in Python or R) to parse complex, messy infrastructure logs and transform them into digestible, statistically validated behavioral patterns.
• Lead the design and analysis of complex experiments, multivariate testing, and rollout strategies to optimize system configurations, documentation, and tooling.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineers, Applied Data Scientists, and Machine Learning researchers to ensure backend pipelines are correctly instrumented for downstream agentic analysis.

Skills

Quantitative research

Logs analysis

Measurement & attribution

Data analysis

Metrics analysis

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in HCI / related field

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

Google is seeking a Senior Quantitative UX Researcher to advance measurement frameworks for AI Enablement, translating complex system telemetry into actionable user insights. You will collaborate with Engineering and Product Management to create industry-leading UX research outcomes.

You will drive empirical studies, log analysis, and regression to uncover product impact, drawing on expertise in Python, statistics, and research design; you will mentor others in a vibrant Quant UXR community and