Senior AI/ML Systems Engineer for Spam Detection

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google’s software engineers develop next-generation technologies that change how billions connect and interact with information. This role focuses on building scalable systems, applying AI/ML, and ensuring high-quality software for trusted services in a fast-paced environment.

The QSpam team maintains the integrity of Google Search by detecting and filtering spammy traffic in QLogs, leveraging AI/ML and LLMs to improve detection and analyst efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 2 years of experience with large-scale data processing, algorithms, and statistics.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Responsibilities

• Utilize AI tools and technologies; be prepared to discuss your knowledge and use of AI tools during the hiring process. Write and test product or system development code.
• Drive the design, development, and maintenance of large-scale, high-performance systems and algorithms for identifying and filtering spam and inorganic activity within QLogs, including heuristic, ML-based, and LLM-powered solutions.
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

Skills

Software development

Testing & launching

Software design

Architecture

Large-scale infra

Distributed systems

Compute/storage/hardware

Data processing

AI integration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Google’s software engineers develop next-generation technologies that change how billions connect and interact with information. This role focuses on building scalable systems, applying AI/ML, and ensuring high-quality software for trusted services in a fast-paced environment.

The QSpam team maintains the integrity of Google Search by detecting and filtering spammy traffic in QLogs, leveraging AI/ML and LLMs to improve detection and analyst efficiency.