Staff Data Scientist, AI-Driven Search Ads

Google Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Mountain View is seeking a Staff Research Data Scientist for AI Experiences in Ads. This role focuses on reinventing Search Ads for the AI era, building analytics models, data infrastructure, and scalable experimentation.

Strong background in statistics, data science, and programming is required. The team collaborates across product areas, shaping the next generation of advertising experiences with measurable outcomes and equity-based opportunities.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• 8 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or 6 years of work experience with a PhD degree.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders in cross-project and team settings to identify and clarify business or product questions to answer. Provide feedback to translate and refine business questions into tractable analysis, evaluation metrics, or mathematical models.
• Use custom data infrastructure or existing data models as appropriate, leveraging specialized knowledge. Design and evaluate models to mathematically express and solve defined problems with limited precedent.
• Gather information, business goals, priorities, and organizational context around the questions to answer, as well as the existing and upcoming data infrastructure.
• Own the process of gathering, extracting, and compiling data across sources via relevant tools (e.g., SQL, R, Python). Format, restructure, or validate data to ensure quality, and review the dataset to ensure it is ready for analysis.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

Education

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

Job description

Google Mountain View is seeking a Staff Research Data Scientist for AI Experiences in Ads. This role focuses on reinventing Search Ads for the AI era, building analytics models, data infrastructure, and scalable experimentation.

Strong background in statistics, data science, and programming is required. The team collaborates across product areas, shaping the next generation of advertising experiences with measurable outcomes and equity-based opportunities.