Senior ML Engineer: Interest Modeling & Retrieval

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

Job summary

Google LLC in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning for Discover Interest Modeling and Retrieval. The role focuses on building and deploying ML models that drive billions of personalized recommendations and interactions within Google’s Discover feed.

You will work on representation learning, large-scale data processing, and integration of ML systems with search and ranking components, contributing to a scalable, efficient, and user-centric experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience building and launching production ML models, including 2 years in recommendation, retrieval, search, or personalization.
• 1 year of experience in design, analysis, and optimization of algorithms for high-performance systems and implementing ML algorithms.
• Experience with large-scale data processing (Beam, Spark, or similar) in Python, C++, and SQL, and with JAX, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Develop representation learning models (embedding/encoder models) trained with various objectives.
• Execute clustering or metric learning at scale and assess cluster quality.
• Utilize LLMs in ML systems and distill judgments into classifiers.

Skills

5 years of ML experience

2 years in recommendation/retrieval/pd

1 year in high-performance algorithms

strong ML fundamentals

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Python

C++

SQL

JAX

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Beam

Spark

Job description

Google LLC in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning for Discover Interest Modeling and Retrieval. The role focuses on building and deploying ML models that drive billions of personalized recommendations and interactions within Google’s Discover feed.

You will work on representation learning, large-scale data processing, and integration of ML systems with search and ranking components, contributing to a scalable, efficient, and user-centric experience.