Research Data Scientist, Core Metrics
Mountain View, CA, USA · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- 3 years of relevant work experience, or a PhD degree; preferred: 5 years of relevant work experience, or a PhD degree.
- Education
- Master's degree in a quantitative field; a PhD degree is stated as an alternative for the work-experience qualification.
About the job
The Research Data Scientist works with Search ads stakeholders to define product questions, build and evaluate mathematical models, and prepare data for analysis.
What you'll do
- Translate business and product questions into tractable analyses, evaluation metrics, or models.
- Design and evaluate models to solve defined problems; gather business context and information about data infrastructure.
- Extract, compile, restructure, and validate data from multiple sources to prepare it for analysis.
What they ask for
- Master's degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, or Engineering.
- 3 years of relevant work experience, or a PhD degree.
- Experience with analytics, coding, database queries, or statistical analysis.
Nice to have
- 5 years of relevant work experience, or a PhD degree.
Pay
$147000 - $210000 USD base salary
Tools
SQL, R, Python
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