Senior Software Engineer: Search Personalization & Quality

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

Job summary

Google Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Search Personalization Quality in New York, NY. You will design, implement, and optimize personalization features at scale, collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve search relevance and user experience.

You will mentor junior engineers, drive technical roadmaps, and apply GenAI concepts to enhance personalization signals while delivering reliable production systems in a fast-paced environment.

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.

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

Search quality algorithms

Personalization algorithms

Testing and maintenance

GenAI techniques

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD in CS

Job description

Google Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Search Personalization Quality in New York, NY. You will design, implement, and optimize personalization features at scale, collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve search relevance and user experience.

You will mentor junior engineers, drive technical roadmaps, and apply GenAI concepts to enhance personalization signals while delivering reliable production systems in a fast-paced environment.