Senior Product Data Scientist - Anti-Spam & Trust

Google Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 236,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Product Data Scientist for the Messages, Spam and Abuse team. Based in Mountain View, CA, you will deliver crucial insights, predictive models, and measurement frameworks to protect users from spam and abuse in RCS and RBM channels.

You will identify evolving abuse vectors, model adversarial behaviors, and guide product/engineering teams on anti-spam strategies, with end-to-end classification pipelines and robust offline/online evaluations.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• 8 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL).
• Experience developing and using AI tools in the context of data science for large, consumer facing internet products.

Responsibilities

• Define and track core metrics for spam prevalence, false positives, enforcement efficacy, and user impact. Develop automated dashboards, anomaly detection alerts, and reporting pipelines to monitor ecosystem health in real time.
• Design and execute A/B tests and counterfactual analyses to evaluate the efficacy and side effects of anti-spam rules, ML model updates, and UI interventions.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Policy, and UX teams to identify spam trends, prioritize enforcement roadmaps, and balance security with user engagement.
• Conduct exploratory data analyses on evolving adversarial behaviors in conversational messaging and present technical insights to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Evaluate and iterate on statistical models, heuristics, and classification algorithms (e.g., text classifiers, graph signals, behavioral anomaly detection) to detect spam, phishing, and unwanted traffic across P2P RCS and commercial RBM channels.

Skills

Analytics

Python/R/SQL

AI tools experience

Education

Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field

Job description

Google is seeking a Senior Product Data Scientist for the Messages, Spam and Abuse team. Based in Mountain View, CA, you will deliver crucial insights, predictive models, and measurement frameworks to protect users from spam and abuse in RCS and RBM channels.

You will identify evolving abuse vectors, model adversarial behaviors, and guide product/engineering teams on anti-spam strategies, with end-to-end classification pipelines and robust offline/online evaluations.