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Senior Product Data Scientist, ML Resource Efficiency

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Compensation
$163–236K/yr
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Product Data Scientist will help Google’s Cloud ML Efficiency Data Science team improve the efficient, scalable, and cost-effective use of ML compute for training and serving models. The role collaborates with engineering, finance, product, and leadership teams, using analysis and business cases to identify efficiency opportunities and inform product improvements. It also reports findings to leadership and influences cross-team priorities.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

AnalyticsStatistical AnalysisCodingPythonRSQLMachine Learning InfrastructureStrategic Problem SolvingCross-Functional CollaborationEnglish Proficiency

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Quantitative Field8 Years Analytics or 5 With Master'sMaster's in Quantitative Field

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Minimum qualifications:

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

  • 8 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL) or 5 years of experience with a Master's degree.

Preferred qualifications:

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

  • 8 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL).

  • Experience working on Machine Learning Infrastructure.

About the job

Google’s bespoke ML TPU infrastructure is a rapidly growing investment driving performance beyond Moore’s Law. The Cloud ML Efficiency Data Science team provides insights and tools that enable product areas to efficiently consume ML resources for training and serving models.

In this high-visibility role, you will collaborate with Capital Engineering, Finance, PMs, and executive leadership to ensure the scalable and cost-effective deployment of ML compute across Google. Leveraging strong technical and analytical skills, you will uncover opportunities to improve efficiency through data transparency, software stack enhancements, user engagements, and service innovations like pricing and product tiers.

To succeed, you must be a strategic, agile problem solver who navigates ambiguity, acts with bias to action, and builds strong cross-functional relationships. You will partner closely with AI and Compute Enablement leads, regularly presenting findings to AI2 leadership.

Your work will directly, influence how Google optimizes investment, scaling ML infrastructure globally to meet the soaring demands of Google's ML products and research. You will engage with senior executives across Platforms, Research, Finance, and PA PARM teams to perfectly align our services with user needs.

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

US: $163000 - $236000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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

Responsibilities

  • Perform analysis utilizing relevant tools (e.g., SQL, R, Python). Help solve problems, narrowing down multiple options into the best approach, and take ownership of open-ended ambiguous business problems to reach an optimal solution.

  • Build new processes, procedures, methods, tests, and components with foresight to anticipate and address future issues.

  • Report on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to support business reviews with the cross-functional/organizational leadership team. Translate analysis results to business insights or product improvement opportunities.

  • Build and prototype analysis and business cases iteratively to provide insights at scale. Develop comprehensive knowledge of Google data structures and metrics, advocating for changes where needed for product development.

  • Influence across teams to align resources and direction.

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How this job compares

Set against the 4,812 open Data Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$163–236K/yr
  • California median$156–236K/yr671 salary ranges
  • US median$136–215K/yr3,691 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $200K, is close to the California median midpoint ($200K) — in the middle half of Data Scientist salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 807 open Data Scientist jobs in California and 4,812 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Data Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (4,124 postings).
Education
2,275 of the 4,812 open Data Scientist jobs (47%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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