Senior Search Personalization Engineer - Quality & Scale

Google; New York (NY); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking software engineers to contribute to next-generation search personalization and related AI-driven features. You will work on production systems that scale to billions of users, focusing on improving personalization signals, ranking, and information retrieval models.

You will join a high-visibility team with deadlines aligned to regulations and company initiatives, and may switch teams as projects evolve. In-person interviews are part of the process in many cases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of software development in C++, Java, or Python.
• 3 years developing search quality algorithms, ranking systems, or information retrieval models.
• 3 years building personalization algorithms or recommendation systems in production.
• 3 years testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year in design/architecture.
• 1 year of GenAI techniques or related concepts.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical roadmap for Search Personalization quality components across AI Mode and apply them in AI Overviews.
• Solve personalization triggering problems by understanding query intent, user context, and real-world context to expand Personal Intelligence across queries.
• Improve personalization signal quality by designing and validating solutions for accurate signals via context engineering and ranking.
• Collaborate with the personalization evaluation team and AI Experience quality team to accelerate personalization wins.
• Work with Product Managers and Analysts across organizations to understand limitations and design scalable personalization solutions.

Skills

Software Dev

IR / Search Algorithms

Personalization Systems

Software Testing

GenAI Knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's or PhD in CS

Tools

Kotlin

Job description

Google is seeking software engineers to contribute to next-generation search personalization and related AI-driven features. You will work on production systems that scale to billions of users, focusing on improving personalization signals, ranking, and information retrieval models.

You will join a high-visibility team with deadlines aligned to regulations and company initiatives, and may switch teams as projects evolve. In-person interviews are part of the process in many cases.