Senior Data Scientist, Core Ranking and AI Context

Google Google · Big Tech · Mountain View, CA +1

Senior Data Scientist role focused on Core Ranking and AI Context Engineering (CRAFT) for Google Search, AI Overview, and AI Mode products. The role involves identifying quality and metric headroom, conducting analyses, applying statistical/AI methods, developing and automating evals and measurements for iterative improvements, and partnering with engineering and product teams to drive system changes and launches. The position requires a Master's degree in a quantitative field and 5 years of experience in analytics and coding, with preferred experience in consumer-facing products and evaluation methodologies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work closely with engineers and product managers to identify quality and metric headrooms.
  2. Conduct rigorous analyses of large-scale datasets, apply statistical/AI methods to solve complex problems, and present actionable insights and recommendations to stakeholders.
  3. Develop evals and measurements to guide hillclimbing and iterative improvements.
  4. Automate such evals and measurements in collaboration with engineering and product.
  5. Be an integrated partner to impel system changes and launches.

Skills

Required

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

Nice to have

  • 8 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or 6 years of experience with a PhD degree.
  • Experience working on a consumer facing product or quality evaluations.
  • Experience with experimental design and analysis, survey design, evaluation methodologies, statistical modeling and machine learning algorithms.
  • Ability to convey complex information clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing.
  • Ability to apply quantitative models to real-world business problems.
  • Ability to learn new skills and adapt to changing environments, including track record of self-directed learning and knowledge application.

What the JD emphasized

  • quality and metric headrooms
  • evals and measurements
  • Automate such evals and measurements

Other signals

  • Core Ranking and AI Context Engineering (CRAFT)
  • foundation for all of Google’s key products - Search, AI Overview, and AI Mode
  • elevate Google's Search Engine Results Page (SRP) and AI Mode and AI Overviews (AIX) products
  • drive measurements, insights, and impel actions