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 for Google's key products like Search, AI Overview, and AI Mode. The role involves identifying quality and metric headroom, conducting analyses, applying AI methods, developing and automating evals and measurements to guide improvements, and partnering with engineering and product teams to drive system changes.

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. Be an integrated partner to impel system changes and launches.
  5. Automate such evals and measurements in collaboration with engineering and product.

Skills

Required

  • Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
  • 5 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or 3 years of experience with a 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
  • push the boundaries of Web and AI quality
  • architect novel ways for billions of users to experience Google’s capabilities