Data Scientist, Research, YouTube

$177,000 - $266,000/Yr

YouTube - San Bruno, CA

Full-time - Senior

San Bruno, CA

Broadcasting and Content Providers

About the position

The Data Scientist position at YouTube focuses on leveraging data to enhance decision-making processes and improve the platform. The role is part of the Racial Justice, Equity, Product Inclusion (REP) team, which collaborates with various product managers and engineering teams to ensure the development of fair and inclusive products. The position involves addressing bias in automated systems and emphasizes the importance of fairness in areas such as Creator Fairness and GenAI fairness.

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.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or 6 years of work experience with a PhD degree.

Nice-to-haves

• 10 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or 8 years of work experience with a PhD degree.

Benefits

• Base salary range of $177,000-$266,000
• Bonus
• Equity
• Comprehensive benefits package