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# Research Data Scientist, YouTube Gaming Discovery

- **Company:** Google LLC
- **Location:** San Bruno, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $147,000.0 - $211,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Databases, Data Infrastructure, R (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, SQL Databases
- **Published:** July 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/DA712CA921AB44ABBE7DF827B7C9EA63/job/

## About the Role

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area., * 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:

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

## Description

* 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 analysis, evaluation metrics or mathematical models.
 * Use custom data infrastructure or existing data models. 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 and Python). Format, re-structure or validate data to ensure quality and review the dataset to ensure it is ready for analysis.


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