Drimva

Google

Product Data Scientist, YouTube Search and Viewer AI

San Bruno, CA, USA · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026

Experience
5 years of relevant work experience, or a PhD degree.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.

About the job

Analyze product questions, experiments, and data to improve YouTube Search systems and viewer experiences, including AI-powered products.

What you'll do

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to clarify product or business questions and translate them into analyses, metrics, or models.
  • Gather, extract, validate, and compile data from multiple sources using relevant tools.
  • Design and evaluate models and analyze experiments to address product or business problems.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field.
  • 5 years of relevant work experience, or a PhD degree.
  • Experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding, querying databases, or performing statistical analysis.

Nice to have

  • Experience with machine learning and experiment design principles.
  • Experience with recommender systems.

Pay

$138000 - $197000 (USD) (base salary)

Tools

Python, R, SQL

AI focus

Work on YouTube viewer AI experiences, including LLM-powered systems, and improve foundational search systems and signals.

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First seen Oct 21, 2026 · Last verified Nov 6, 2026 (UTC)