Product Data Scientist, YouTube Search and Viewer AI

Google•San Bruno, CA

6d•$138,000 - $197,000

About The Position

The Product Data Scientist will join YouTube Search and Viewer AI, working between established recommender systems and emerging LLM-powered experiences such as Ask YouTube. Projects may include analyzing experiments, improving foundational search systems, and developing foundational signals. The role calls for flexibility and comfort in a changing environment. The position involves collaborating with stakeholders to clarify product and business questions, gathering and preparing data, and designing and evaluating models to solve defined problems.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
Five years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases, or conducting statistical analysis; alternatively, a PhD degree.

Nice To Haves

Experience with machine learning and experiment design principles.
Experience with recommender systems.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with stakeholders across projects and teams to identify and clarify business or product questions.
Use custom data infrastructure or existing data models to design and evaluate models that mathematically express and solve problems with limited precedent.
Gather information about questions, business goals, priorities, organizational context, and existing or upcoming data infrastructure.
Gather, extract, and compile data across sources using relevant tools such as SQL and Python; format, restructure, and validate data to ensure quality and readiness for analysis.
Provide feedback to translate and refine business questions into analyses, evaluation metrics, or mathematical models.