Data Science Lead, Global Patents

Key Skills

Unix Operating system, Java Programming, Python Programming, C++, C Programming, SQL, Machine learning techniques, Data science techniques, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), R Programming, Linux Operating system, Streaming APIs, VR/AR frameworks

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in a data analyst or quantitative role.
• Experience in people management.
• Experience using a statistical programming language (e.g., R or Python) and applied machine learning techniques, including dimensionality reduction strategies, supervised and unsupervised classification, and natural language processing frameworks.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD.
• 3 years of experience managing data science teams.
• Experience with deep learning frameworks and building/utilizing APIs.
• Knowledge of Unix/Linux scripting and patents or patent data.
• Excellent programming skills in Java or C/C++.
• Excellent leadership, mentoring, and teaching skills in emerging practices in statistical analysis and advanced analytics.

About the job

Our Patent team is an invigorating, inspiring team of innovators and attorneys who are passionate about future technologies and excited about resolving their ensuing legal challenges. As a member of this team, you have the unique opportunity to develop and implement Google's strategy to protect, defend and capture the value of its patents. You dive into varied and interesting tasks that include patent-related protection, licensing, dispute resolution (pre-litigation and litigation), acquisition, deals and policy work. You work with engineers, product developers, executives and other legal team members, and are responsible for managing outside counsel.

20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the technical quality of the team’s work, and ensure that it adheres to excellence.
• Build alignment for the vision/strategy of using machine learning while performing additional exploratory data analysis for feature engineering, analyzing model outputs, and building relationships with features for model performance improvement.
• Design and deploy machine learning algorithms and models to facilitate strategic initiatives.
• Advise on experimentation strategy, and identify strategic data needs.