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Research Data Scientist, Core Metrics

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Compensation
$147–210K/yr
Location
Mountain View, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Research Data Scientist will support Google’s Ads Metrics team for Search ads, helping the SAGE organization develop and evaluate ad products. The role involves translating business and product questions into analysis, metrics, or mathematical models, and working with data infrastructure and datasets. Google lists a master’s degree and relevant analytics experience or a PhD among the minimum qualifications.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

AnalyticsPythonRSQLDatabase QueryingStatistical Analysis

Qualifications

Master's in Quantitative Field or Related3 Years Work Experience or PhD5 Years Work Experience or PhDEnglish Proficiency

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Research Data Scientist, Core Metrics

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.

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

Preferred qualifications:

  • 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 a PhD degree.

About the job

Ads Metrics is the Data Science team for Search ads. We support the SAGE (Search Ads and Google Experience) organization in developing the most important ad products at Google - from classic text ads, to rich shopping ads, to exciting new products like Discovery ads. These products - the heart of Google’s business driving $B+ in annual revenue - are complex, advanced, and they are rapidly growing and evolving.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with stakeholders in cross-projects and team settings to identify and clarify business or product questions to answer. Provide feedback to translate and refine business questions into tractable analysis, evaluation metrics, or mathematical models.

  • Use custom data infrastructure or existing data models as appropriate, using specialized knowledge. Design and evaluate models to mathematically express and solve defined problems with limited precedent.

  • Gather information, business goals, priorities, and organizational context around the questions to answer, as well as the existing and upcoming data infrastructure.

  • Own the process of gathering, extracting, and compiling data across sources via relevant tools (e.g., SQL, R, Python). Independently format, re-structure, and/or validate data to ensure quality, and review the dataset to ensure it is ready for analysis.

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How this job compares

Set against the 5,105 open Data Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$147–210K/yr
  • California median$156–241K/yr727 salary ranges
  • US median$135–216K/yr4,092 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $179K, is 11% below the California median midpoint ($201K) — in the middle half of Data Scientist salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 854 open Data Scientist jobs in California and 5,105 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Data Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (4,402 postings).
Education
2,829 of the 5,105 open Data Scientist jobs (55%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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