Senior Data Scientist, Research, Search Health

Google
Mountain View, CA, USA / Kirkland, WA, USA / New York, NY, USA

About the job

Google Search is the world's most trusted and knowledgeable health companion. Our mission is to help billions of people live healthier lives by activating seamless care-paths for every health journey. Health is one of the Alphabet's top priorities, and this is a high visibility role to work on eval, metrics, and user insights for AI answers for search health. In this role, you will have significant opportunities to influence product/engineering directions. You will also have the opportunity to create and apply advanced statistical, ML, Large Language Model (LLM) methodologies to solve complex business problems.

Responsibilities

Initiate projects inside and across the organization and drive to completion.

Frame and solve ambiguous business problems and communicate the solutions effectively.

Interact cross-functionally, be a thought partner and influence a wide range of product stakeholders.

Communicate clearly and persuasively and influence executive leadership.

Research and develop advanced analysis, causal inference analysis of impact, create new methodologies (e.g., LLM-based method) to identify product opportunities from various data sources, product headroom analysis for key AI features.

Qualifications

Minimum

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, or 3 years of work experience with a PhD degree.

Preferred

8 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or 6 years of work experience with a PhD degree.

Experience with scientific methodologies and in areas such as LLM.

Ability to think about product headroom opportunities in innovative ways.

Ability to solve unstructured business problems with data science and translating results into impactful business/product recommendations.

Ability to think critically, analyze problems, and develop data-driven solutions.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and ability to articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.