Senior Staff Engineer, YouTube Shorts Ranking & Core ML

Google Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for YouTube Shorts Ranking, Core Modeling, to drive advanced ranking models and scalable ML infrastructure. You will influence cross-functional teams and own outcomes in a highly ambiguous environment.

The role emphasizes building production-grade recommender systems and leading project strategy, with opportunities to shape the direction of Shorts and related platforms at scale.

Qualifications

• Own outcomes and decision making in ambiguous problems.
• 5+ years building and deploying recommender systems (retrieval, prediction, ranking, embeddings) in production.
• 7+ years leading technical project strategy, ML design, and large-scale ML infra.
• 5+ years design/architecture experience and launching software products.

Responsibilities

• Bring ideas to optimize Shorts ranking and overall user experience.
• Build large-scale ML models, training infra, and quality evaluation.
• Collaborate with data scientists, PMs, engineers to improve product quality.

Skills

Software development

ML design

Model deployment

Data processing

Debugging

Fine tuning

Ranking models

Recommendation systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in CS/ML/EE or related field

Job description

Google is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for YouTube Shorts Ranking, Core Modeling, to drive advanced ranking models and scalable ML infrastructure. You will influence cross-functional teams and own outcomes in a highly ambiguous environment.

The role emphasizes building production-grade recommender systems and leading project strategy, with opportunities to shape the direction of Shorts and related platforms at scale.