Senior Staff Research Scientist, Consumer Health Research, Fitbit

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Effective communication skills, Google Products, Health and Safety, Mentoring

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

• PhD in Computer Science, AI and Health, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with leading an applied research agenda with a focus on AI and Health.
• Experience building Research and Development teams from end to end.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with translating research to application.
• Ability to work across a cross-functional and multi-geographical team.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Interest in modulating between development and team mentorship depending on the phase of the team and projects.

About the job

As an organization, Google maintains a portfolio of research projects driven by fundamental research, new product innovation, product contribution and infrastructure goals, while providing individuals and teams the freedom to emphasize specific types of work. As a Research Scientist, you'll setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly, managing deadlines and deliverables while applying the latest theories to develop new and improved products, processes, or technologies. From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine (and deep) learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more.

As a Research Scientist, you'll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

Fitbit’s wide range of innovative products, including smartwatches, trackers, and a smart scale, help people lead healthier, more active lives by empowering them with data, inspiration, and guidance to reach their health and fitness goals. Coupled with our leading software and Fitbit Premium, our immersive platform experience delivers personalized experiences, insights, and guidance to support our users’ health and wellness. Fitbit’s mission has always been to help make everyone in the world healthier and now, as part of Google we’ll be able to make health even more accessible to everyone.

Responsibilities

• Synthesize the consumer health vertical from the research community, capabilities within Google, and narratives for health impact.
• Partner with clinical, product management, engineering, and other research teams across Google to focus applied research efforts into product strategy.
• Maintain internal stacks and tools to enable research interfacing with disparate product teams.
• Set the local team culture and act as a site lead.