staff Data Scientist tech_leadership · Posted May 15, 2026
$192,000 – $278,000
USD per year

About this role

Google is hiring a staff-level Data Scientist based in Kirkland, WA | Sunnyvale, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, R, SQL, Performance Optimization. Compensation is listed at $192,000–$278,000 per year.

Role
Data Scientist
Function
data engineering
Level
staff
Track
Tech leadership
Employment
Full-time
Location
Kirkland, WA | Sunnyvale, CA
Posted
May 15, 2026

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Job description

from Google careers

Help serve Google's worldwide user base of more than a billion people. Data Scientists provide quantitative support, market understanding and a strategic perspective to our partners throughout the organization. As a data-loving member of the team, you serve as an analytics expert for your partners, using numbers to help them make better decisions. You will weave stories with meaningful insight from data. You'll make critical recommendations for your fellow Googlers in Engineering and Product Management. You relish tallying up the numbers one minute and communicating your findings to a team leader the next.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

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