Senior ML Engineer – Gmail Safety & Abuse Protections

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

Job summary

Google Sunnyvale is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Gmail Abuse and Safety Protections. You will design, develop, test, and deploy software solutions to detect abuse, protect users, and advance enterprise-scale safeguards across Google’s Gmail ecosystem.

You will lead ML-driven initiatives, evaluate GenAI-related risks, and collaborate with research and engineering teams to build scalable signals and infrastructure.

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 ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).
• 1 year of 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).
• Experience with data analysis, statistical modeling, and translating complex data into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Assess threats to Gmail users from new technologies like GenAI and design appropriate safeguards in advance.
• Drive key improvements through machine learning algorithms and systems innovations.
• Design, run, and evaluate experiments for training GenAI models with the goal of improving Gmail abuse detection. Build production-ready ML systems that are both high-performing and scalable.
• Work across research and engineering teams to build ML signals, techniques and infrastructure to protect Gmail users including enterprise customers. Collaborate with data science, product, and operation teams to stay at the forefront of abuse trends and risks.

Skills

Software development

ML infrastructure

GenAI techniques

Data analysis

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in CS or related field

Job description

Google Sunnyvale is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Gmail Abuse and Safety Protections. You will design, develop, test, and deploy software solutions to detect abuse, protect users, and advance enterprise-scale safeguards across Google’s Gmail ecosystem.

You will lead ML-driven initiatives, evaluate GenAI-related risks, and collaborate with research and engineering teams to build scalable signals and infrastructure.