Senior Staff Software Engineer - ML & Recs at Scale

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's software engineers build the next-generation technologies that connect billions of users and help them explore and interact with information. This role focuses on personalizing content for hundreds of millions of users, ranking and recommending articles, videos, and more, using large-scale datasets and advanced ML models.

You will join the Search and Discover teams, design and deploy systems, influence a distributed group of engineers, and contribute to a universally accessible

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• 5 years of experience building and deploying recommendation systems models (retrieval, prediction, ranking, embedding) in production and experience building architecture in different modeling domains.
• 5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.
• Provide technical leadership on projects. Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines. Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Lead the design and implementation of recommendation systems, optimize ML infrastructure, and guide the development of model architecture.

Skills

Software development

Machine learning

Recommendation systems

ML infrastructure

Model deployment

Generative AI integration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering/CS

Job description

Google's software engineers build the next-generation technologies that connect billions of users and help them explore and interact with information. This role focuses on personalizing content for hundreds of millions of users, ranking and recommending articles, videos, and more, using large-scale datasets and advanced ML models.

You will join the Search and Discover teams, design and deploy systems, influence a distributed group of engineers, and contribute to a universally accessible