Software Engineer III, Centerpiece

Google; Lavamünd; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Google is seeking software engineers to help build Centerpiece and related AI-powered content understanding. You will work across search, AI features, and infrastructure to scale information for billions of users.

The role emphasizes versatility, leadership, and tackling new problems across full-stack technologies, with opportunities to switch teams as the business grows and evolves. Interviews are typically in person.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 1 year of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).
• Experience with GenAI techniques (LLMs, multi-modal, large vision models) or related GenAI concepts.

Aufgaben

• Launch new versions of Centerpiece by improving the Professor model and training student models.
• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices.
• Improve the tooling and infrastructure.
• Maintain or ablate other systems that provide similar data, redirecting clients to Centerpiece.
• Implement GenAI solutions, utilize ML infrastructure, and contribute to data preparation and performance improvements.

Kenntnisse

Software development experience

ML infrastructure

GenAI techniques

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related fields

Jobbeschreibung

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 1 year of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).
• Experience with state of the art GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or with GenAI-related concepts (language modeling, computer vision).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

Centerpiece provides the foundational ground truth on what content is truly essential on any webpage. By cleanly isolating Main Content from auxiliary clutter, Centerpiece enables Google's search ranking algorithms, generative AI features, and LLM pretraining pipelines to focus strictly on high-signal content.In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Responsibilities

• Launch new versions of Centerpiece by improving the (prompted) Professor model, applying our Computer Use Agent, and training better student models.
• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency,)
• Improve the tooling and infra.
• Maintain or ablate other systems that provide similar data, re-directing the clients to Centerpiece.
• Implement GenAI solutions, utilize ML infrastructure, and contribute to data preparation, optimization, and performance enhancements.