Senior Product Data Scientist, Messaging & Trust

Google; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 236,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Data Scientist for Android and Business Communication (ABC) to deliver insights, predictive models, and measurement frameworks to protect users across RCS and RBM from spam and abuse.

You will work on end-to-end classification and detection pipelines, run offline and online evaluations, and translate findings into actionable recommendations to safeguard the ecosystem and enhance messaging globally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field
• 8+ years analytics, statistics, and coding experience (or 5+ with master's)
• Experience with A/B testing methodologies

Responsibilities

• Define and track core metrics for spam prevalence, false positives, enforcement efficacy, and user impact; develop dashboards, anomaly alerts, and reporting pipelines.
• Design and execute A/B tests and counterfactual analyses for anti-spam rules, ML model updates, and UI interventions.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Policy, and UX teams to identify spam trends and prioritize enforcement roadmaps.
• Conduct exploratory data analyses on adversarial behaviors in conversational messaging and present insights to stakeholders.
• Evaluate and iterate on statistical models, heuristics, and classification algorithms to detect spam and unwanted traffic across RCS and RBM channels.

Skills

Analytics experience

Statistical analysis

Coding (Python/R/SQL)

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Master's degree in quantitative field

Tools

Python

R

SQL

Job description

Google is seeking a Data Scientist for Android and Business Communication (ABC) to deliver insights, predictive models, and measurement frameworks to protect users across RCS and RBM from spam and abuse.

You will work on end-to-end classification and detection pipelines, run offline and online evaluations, and translate findings into actionable recommendations to safeguard the ecosystem and enhance messaging globally.