Staff UX Quant Researcher, AI Enablement & Impact

Google LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 188,000 - 274,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Google LLC in Sunnyvale, CA, USA is seeking a Staff UX Quantitative Researcher for AI Enablement to join a multi-disciplinary team focused on user-centric AI products. You will analyze user behavior with empirical methods, drive impact across development stages, and contribute to a community that supports mentorship and internal tools.

You will work across logs, surveys, and regression analyses, blending CS and psychology perspectives to uncover actionable insights and guide product strategy.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design and implement agent-assisted pipelines to parse, audit, and analyze massive-scale system logs.
• Define, instrument, and track system-level KPIs, backend performance metrics, and product health indicators.
• 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.
• Partner deeply with Infrastructure Engineers, Applied Data Scientists, and Machine Learning researchers to ensure our backend pipelines are correctly instrumented for downstream agentic analysis.
• Translate abstract system performance data (e.g., latency, GPU/TPU utilization, noise, storage toil) into quantifiable measures of user friction, efficiency losses, and "cognitive load".

Skills

Python

R

MATLAB

C++

Java

Go

Quantitative research

Data analysis

AI/ML research

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's or PhD preferred

Job description

Google LLC in Sunnyvale, CA, USA is seeking a Staff UX Quantitative Researcher for AI Enablement to join a multi-disciplinary team focused on user-centric AI products. You will analyze user behavior with empirical methods, drive impact across development stages, and contribute to a community that supports mentorship and internal tools.

You will work across logs, surveys, and regression analyses, blending CS and psychology perspectives to uncover actionable insights and guide product strategy.