Data Scientist
Looking for a data scientist job in Mountain View? Choose from 38 open roles at 6 employers. Explore real salary data and skills breakdown across remote, hybrid and on-site roles.
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The roles divide broadly into product, research, and business tracks. Product data scientists, such as those in Google Ads or Calling for Android, focus on designing experiments, building predictive models, defining KPIs, and translating analytical findings into product or business strategy. Research data scientists, for example in Search AI Product or Merchant Shopping, tend to develop measurement methodologies, build evaluation frameworks, and work closely with engineering on large-scale datasets. The Principal Data Scientist, Google Search role illustrates how senior positions lean toward establishing data science standards and aligning cross-functional teams around shared practices. Across most postings, core activities include statistical analysis, experiment design, SQL and Python-based data extraction, and communicating results to non-technical stakeholders. Autonomous work on ambiguous problems and cross-functional partnership appear repeatedly in the descriptions.
Across all 38 postings, Python, statistics, and SQL are each mentioned in the substantial majority of descriptions, making them the clearest common thread. A PhD or master's degree appears in exactly half the postings, though these are mentions in descriptions rather than confirmed requirements in every case. A/B testing, Spark, and model evaluation appear in a minority. Tools such as TensorFlow, Java, and C++ appear in only one or two postings each, so they reflect niche requirements rather than a general expectation.
The employers' own advertised ranges, for individual roles at different levels — not an average and not a market rate.
Most postings on this page specify on-site work, and a meaningful minority state hybrid arrangements. No postings are listed as remote. Because work-mode is explicitly stated in all postings here, there are no unknowns in this regard. Candidates should assume that on-site or hybrid attendance in Mountain View is the norm across these roles unless a specific posting states otherwise. The hybrid postings do not describe the number of required office days, so candidates should check individual listings for those details.
Jobs checked 1 day ago. · Guide reviewed 9 September 2026.
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