Google Ads Privacy and Safety (APaS) Data Science team is looking to leverage expertise to provide data insights that directly inform important decisions and product enhancements. The work will be crucial in protecting users and advertisers from fraud, invalid activity and ensuring a fairly compensated, clean and trustworthy ad platform. Ads Privacy and Safety is dedicated to fostering trust and transparency within the Google Ads ecosystem. The Analytics and Insights team plays a crucial role in safeguarding the integrity of Google's advertising platform. By focusing on data-driven objectivity, accountability, and user-centricity, this team develops unbiased frameworks to measure business health and deliver impact assessments across key areas like risk, business, and user trust. They prevent threats by enabling precise measurement and ensuring the focus remains on the problems through close partnerships across APaS and the team provides continuous measurement and influences important decisions with insights.
Requirements
- coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL)
- querying databases
- statistical analysis
- data analysis, including statistical data analysis such as linear models, multivariate analysis, stochastic models and sampling methods.
- Experience with large datasets and big data technologies (e.g., BigQuery, Hadoop, Spark).
- Experience in fraud detection, spam mitigation, or anomaly detection within the online advertising ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Support the improvement and optimization of automated machine learning systems for invalid traffic detection, fraudsters or abuse.
- Contribute to advanced research to uncover new sources of fraud and develop innovative prevention solutions.
- Convey data analysis findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Work effectively with various teams of data scientists, engineers, and researchers.
Other
- Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
- 3 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems
- 5 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems
- Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
- Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA.
