Senior ML Engineering Manager, Recommender Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Bonus target

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for YouTube Recommendations ML based in Mountain View, CA. You will lead large-scale ML initiatives, guide cross-functional teams, and align product and research roadmaps to drive performance and user experience.

You will coach engineers across multiple disciplines, own project goals and budgets, oversee deployment of recommender systems, and influence infrastructure choices for efficiency and scale across sites worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience designing and building large-scale machine learning models.
• 8 years of experience building, testing, maintaining, and launching software products that require running and analyzing experiments and working with user data.
• 5 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.
• Experience creating and aligning cross-organizational technical roadmaps across multiple software engineering, research, product management, and data science teams.
• Experience conducting research or applied research on recommender systems models or in related areas (e.g., ranking, retrieval, or user).

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals.
• Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and align to broader goals; provide feedback and coaching.
• Develop long-term technical goals and roadmaps within and beyond team scope; evolve roadmaps for future needs.
• Oversee system designs within the broader area and review code to solve problems.
• Drive technical project strategy, lead large-scale ML infrastructure optimization, and oversee recommender systems design.

Skills

Machine learning

Large-scale systems

Experimentation

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Roadmap planning

Research in recommender systems

LLMs

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's degree or PhD in CS or related field

Tools

Python

TensorFlow/PyTorch

ML infrastructure

Hardware co-design

Job description

Google LLC is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for YouTube Recommendations ML based in Mountain View, CA. You will lead large-scale ML initiatives, guide cross-functional teams, and align product and research roadmaps to drive performance and user experience.

You will coach engineers across multiple disciplines, own project goals and budgets, oversee deployment of recommender systems, and influence infrastructure choices for efficiency and scale across sites worldwide.