Senior Software Engineer - Personalization & Search Quality

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

Job summary

Google's Senior Software Engineer, Search Personalization Quality in New York, NY is responsible for defining roadmaps, designing and deploying personalization solutions, and collaborating with product managers and cross-functional teams to improve search quality for billions of users.

The role emphasizes experience with C++, Java, Python, and modern GenAI techniques, with opportunities to impact global search experiences and advance personalization across queries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in C++, Java, or Python.
• 3 years of experience in developing search quality algorithms, ranking systems, or information retrieval models.
• 3 years of experience in building, scaling, and deploying personalization algorithms or recommendation systems in production environments.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 1 year of experience with state of the art GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or with GenAI-related concepts (language modeling, computer vision).

Responsibilities

• Define the technical roadmap driving priority Search Personalization Quality components across AI Mode and apply them in AI Overviews.
• Solve personalization triggering problems by understanding the intersection of query intent, user context, and real-world context to expand Personal Intelligence reach across eligible search queries.
• Improve personalization response quality by designing and validating solutions for accurate personalization signals application via context engineering and ranking.
• Work with the personalization evaluation team and AI Experience (AIX) quality team to accelerate personalization wins and benefit horizontal AIX quality.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Managers and Analysts, and across organizations (Infrastructure, Evaluation, Trust, Search Platforms, and Verticals) to understand technical limitations and design solutions that drive personalization expansion and response quality.

Skills

C++

Java

Python

IR algorithms

Personalization

Distributed systems

GenAI basics

Ranking systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Google's Senior Software Engineer, Search Personalization Quality in New York, NY is responsible for defining roadmaps, designing and deploying personalization solutions, and collaborating with product managers and cross-functional teams to improve search quality for billions of users.

The role emphasizes experience with C++, Java, Python, and modern GenAI techniques, with opportunities to impact global search experiences and advance personalization across queries.