Senior Research Data Scientist, Ads Insight and Measurement
Mountain View, CA, USA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Experience
- 5 years of relevant work experience, or 3 years with a PhD; preferred: 8 years, or 6 years with a PhD.
- Education
- Master's degree in a quantitative field listed in the posting.
About the job
Leads the design and development of advertising measurement methods and products, using experiments, causal inference, statistical modeling, and machine learning to measure impact at scale.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction for Conversion Lift and incrementality measurement; develop measurement methodologies and products.
- Architect randomized controlled trials and advance quantitative methods to address complex measurement challenges.
- Build scalable analysis pipelines, set team standards, and mentor data scientists while partnering cross-functionally.
What they ask for
- Master's degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, or Engineering.
- 5 years of relevant work experience, or 3 years with a PhD; experience may include analytics, coding, database querying, or statistical analysis.
- Coding experience with Python, R, or SQL.
Nice to have
- 8 years of relevant work experience, or 6 years with a PhD.
- Experience with causal inference, statistical analysis, machine learning, and translating business questions into data-based answers.
Pay
$174000 - $252000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, R, SQL
AI focus
Applies machine learning techniques to advertising measurement challenges.
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