Senior Data Scientist, Research, Operations Data Science

Minimum qualifications:

• Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 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 3 years of work experience with a PhD degree.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 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.
  
• Experience designing and building optimization, simulation, and probabilistic decision-making models.
  
• Experience designing and building statistical models or physical models for energy consumption.
• Experience in the computer hardware industry.

About the job

Operations Data Science (ODS) is a team of Data Science and Business Analysis experts, who provide model-based decision support to scale Google's Technical Infrastructure optimally. In this role, you will lead data modeling and estimation efforts for our Google Cloud Carbon Footprint product. This includes collaborating with internal teams to gather, analyze, and interpret data related to Google Cloud software usage, resource consumption, energy consumption, and carbon emissions. You will work to enhance the value of the Google Cloud Carbon Footprint by more accurately estimating the energy consumption and carbon emissions of customers' workloads and projects. You will build analytical tools to clearly identify energy and carbon-savings opportunities for customers. Additionally, you will quantify the opportunity size of potential Cloud carbon-efficiency projects and prioritize these to build Cloud features that help customers reduce their emissions.

The Google Climate Operations team is responsible for ensuring Google achieves 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy and Net Zero emissions for our global operations and value chain by 2030. The team works cross-functionally across our global operations and hardware supply chains to develop and scale new solutions on energy and carbon. It also leads efforts to create the external market environments necessary to drive decarbonization in a way that facilitates these goals and enables others to do so as well.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $166,000-$244,000 + 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-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.
  
• 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, and/or validate data to ensure quality, and review the dataset to ensure it is ready for analysis.
  
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to combine hardware insights with energy and emissions data to prioritize carbon-reduction efforts in Cloud.
• Develop, maintain, support, and enhance models and estimation tools for the energy-use and carbon-footprint of Google Cloud customer workloads.