Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML, Search Personalization

Google; Town of Montana (WI); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for AI/ML in Search Personalization. Located in Mountain View, CA, the role targets mid-level professionals with strong ML and systems experience and a focus on scalable information retrieval and personalized rankings.

The engineer will develop, test, and deploy software, collaborate on design reviews, and contribute to documentation while shaping the ranking and retrieval stacks for Google Search.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development.
• 3 years testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year in design/architecture.
• 3 years building and deploying recommendation systems in production, and experience building architecture.
• 3 years of experience with ML infrastructure (deployment, evaluation, data processing, debugging).
• 1 year of experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, or JAX.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Collaborate through design and code reviews to ensure best practices.
• Contribute to documentation and educational content.
• Triage issues and debug/resolve impacts on hardware, network, or service quality.
• Design and implement recommendation systems models across domains.

Skills

Software engineering

ML infrastructure

Recommendation systems

Code reviews

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's or PhD (preferred)

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML, Search Personalization

Company: Google

Location: Mountain View, CA, USA

Experience Level: Mid

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 Salary Range: $174,000 - $252,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Minimum 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 (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.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

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