Research Data Scientist, Vertical Ads

INFORMATION_TECHNOLOGY
USA
March 7, 2026
FULL_TIME

Job Overview

  • Date Posted
    March 7, 2026
  • Location
    USA
  • Expiration date
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Job Description

2026-02-12T12:30:38.259Z

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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

In this role, you will evaluate and improve Google Search Vertical Ads products. You will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and analysts on a wide range of problems. You will bring scientific and statistical methods to the issues of Search Vertical Ads product creation, development and improvement with an appreciation for the behaviors of the end user. Your work will be directly related to growing Google’s business in a user-responsible way. You will Support the Search Ads and Google Experience (SAGE) organization as the Data Science (DS) team for Google Search, Discover, and Gmail ads in developing the most important ad products at Google from classic text ads and rich local, travel, and shopping ads, to monetizing new rapidly evolving ad surfaces like Discover Feed and Gmail. These products the heart of Google’s business driving close to $200B in annual business are advanced, and are rapidly growing and evolving.Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $141,000-$202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with stakeholders in cross-project 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). Format, re-structure, or validate data to ensure quality, and review the dataset to ensure it is ready for analysis.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

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