Senior AI/ML Tech Lead, Shorts Discovery

Google LLC; San Bruno (CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

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Equity

Bonus target

Benefits

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Senior Staff Tech Lead to oversee YouTube Shorts Discovery in Mountain View or San Bruno, CA. The role combines technical leadership with hands-on ML work to guide large-scale recommender systems and AI infrastructure.

You will mentor engineers, set architectural direction, collaborate with product and research teams, and drive impactful experiments while navigating the fast-paced AI landscape. Equity and benefits apply.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• 7 years leading technical project strategy and ML design.
• 5 years building and deploying recommendation systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy for enhancing YouTube Shorts discovery models.
• Lead development of large-scale recommendation models and ML infra.
• Partner with product, data science and research teams to scale solutions.
• Mentor engineers and align goals, timelines and priorities.

Skills

Software development

Technical leadership

ML design

Model deployment

Data processing

Debugging & fine tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Google LLC is seeking a Senior Staff Tech Lead to oversee YouTube Shorts Discovery in Mountain View or San Bruno, CA. The role combines technical leadership with hands-on ML work to guide large-scale recommender systems and AI infrastructure.

You will mentor engineers, set architectural direction, collaborate with product and research teams, and drive impactful experiments while navigating the fast-paced AI landscape. Equity and benefits apply.