Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML, Search Personalization

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

Job summary

Google Mountain View is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for AI/ML in Search Personalization. The role focuses on building and deploying recommender systems, ML infrastructure, and large-scale ranking models to improve search quality.

Candidates should have strong software development, system design, and collaboration skills, with in-person interviews often part of the process. In this position, you will work on the Search team to push technology forward, impacting billions of users globally.

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 building and deploying recommendation systems models in production, and experience building architecture.
• 3 years of experience with ML infrastructure (model deployment, evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).
• 1 year of experience with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or JAX.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices.
• Contribute to existing documentation and adapt content based on updates and feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/resolve impact on hardware, network, or service operations.
• Design and implement recommendation systems models across domains, leverage ML infrastructure, and contribute to architecture design.

Skills

Software dev experience

Testing & deployment

ML infrastructure

ML frameworks (TF, PyTorch, JAX)

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree or PhD in CS

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML, Search Personalization

Google Mountain View, CA, USA

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

• 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 building and deploying recommendation systems models (retrieval, prediction, ranking, personalization, search quality, and embedding) in production, and experience building architecture.
• 3 years of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).
• 1 year of experience with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or JAX.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Understanding of modern recommendation architectures (e.g., two-tower models, sequential user modeling) and how to integrate large foundation models into existing ranking/retrieval stacks.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

In Google Search, we’re reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you’ll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Design and implement recommendation systems models across different domains, leverage ML infrastructure, and contribute to architecture design.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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