Senior Staff Product Data Scientist, Merchant Shopping at Google
Mountain View, CA
$240,000–$334,000from the description
Jul 9, 2026
Mountain View, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor data science role focused on Google's merchant-facing products — Business Profiles, Business Messaging, and Business Agents. The work centers on building production data pipelines, an AI-readable semantic data layer, autonomous analysis agents, and automated A/B testing infrastructure, rather than ad-hoc analysis. The position suits a deeply experienced data scientist comfortable writing production-grade code and shaping the technical direction of a data organization.
Staff level · 13+ years · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 15 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 6–20
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $189,150 (middle half $152,859–$224,286). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role title is 'Senior Staff' — a level above Staff — but the closest available band is Staff, which is used here. The scope (setting technical direction across multiple product surfaces, mentoring senior team members, org-wide architectural mandate) clearly exceeds Senior.
The minimum qualification accepts 13 years with a Bachelor's or 10 years with a Master's; the degree requirement is set to Bachelor's (the hard floor), and total years is set to 13 (the minimum stated for a Bachelor's holder).
The role sits at the boundary of Data Science (15-2051) and Software Development (15-1252): the JD explicitly states candidates must 'operate fluidly between data science and software engineering' and 'build production-code data pipelines.' Data science framing (statistical frameworks, A/B testing, metric analysis) is primary, but the software engineering component is substantial.
Python and R are listed together as examples of coding languages in the minimum qualifications ('e.g., Python, R, SQL'). Python is named as the primary in the responsibilities section; R is captured as an alternative.
The 15-year / Master's preferred qualifications block is treated as preferred, not a hard gate.
Compensation includes a stated 25% bonus target and equity in addition to the base salary range of $240,000–$334,000.
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