Senior ML Engineer, Discover Feed Recommendations

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

Job summary

Google Mountain View, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Discover Feed Recommendations. The role focuses on building and deploying ML-driven content discovery and personalized feeds at scale, with strong emphasis on real-time serving and system design.

Join a cross-functional team advancing retrieval, ranking, and personalization for billions of users worldwide, leveraging generative AI integration and advanced models.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3+ years of end-to-end ML including deployment, evaluation, data processing, debugging.
• 3+ years building production recommendation systems architectures (retrieval, prediction, ranking, personalization, search quality, embedding).
• Experience developing personalization algorithms for user-specific content delivery.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Responsibilities

• Research and deploy ML models that identify content by combining multimodal LLM understanding, uncertainty estimation, and causal modeling to maximize exploration ROI at scale.
• Drive projects from problem formulation and experimentation design through model training, real-time serving architecture, and production launches, collaborating closely with Feed Ranking, Content, and Infra teams.
• Partner to align semantic applicant retrieval, ranking incentives, and warm-start handoffs so promising new content seamlessly activates the organic recommendation flywheel.
• Lead zero-history discovery for Discover's top formats - making dynamically generated AI content a citizen across the stack and surfacing breaking news within minutes of publication.
• Evolve StarSearch into the intelligent gatekeeper for Discover's content ecosystem - safely bootstrapping fresh, niche, and creator supply to expand personalization headroom while rapidly pruning unengaged content to keep the serving corpus fresh and efficient.

Skills

Software development

ML lifecycle

Recommendation systems

Personalization algorithms

Generative AI integration

Job description

Google Mountain View, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Discover Feed Recommendations. The role focuses on building and deploying ML-driven content discovery and personalized feeds at scale, with strong emphasis on real-time serving and system design.

Join a cross-functional team advancing retrieval, ranking, and personalization for billions of users worldwide, leveraging generative AI integration and advanced models.