Senior Staff Software Engineer, ML, Search Ads Creatives

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

Job summary

Google LLC in Mountain View, CA, USA is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer focused on ML for Search Ads Creatives. The role emphasizes leading ML design and deploying scalable AI-driven advertising solutions across Google Ads and related platforms.

You will collaborate with research, product, sales, and policy teams to deliver high-impact, reliable systems while guiding architectural decisions and driving ML infrastructure improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages, data structures, and algorithms.
• 8 years of experience with ML/AI algorithms, tools, deep learning, or other AI/ML modeling.
• 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and optimizing ML infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Develop software solutions at scale for Search Ads Creatives.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software.
• Collaborate with Product, Sales, Marketing, Buyside Platform, and Policy teams.
• Lead roadmap setting and cross-team Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
• Refine user and advertiser experiences to meet needs.

Skills

Software development

ML/AI algorithms

GenAI techniques

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

PhD in CS/Statistics or related field

Job description

Senior Staff Software Engineer, ML, Search Ads Creatives

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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages, data structures, and algorithms.
• 8 years of experience with ML/AI algorithms, tools, deep learning, or other AI/ML modeling.
• 8 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 5 years with software design and architecture.
• 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and optimizing ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine-tuning).
• 2 years of experience with GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or GenAI-related concepts (language modeling, computer vision).

Preferred qualifications:

• PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, or related fields.
• Experience in GenAI related model fine tuning, large language models building or product enablement exploration.
• Experience in successfully applying GenAI and machine learning approaches to real-world content problems.
• Deep familiarity with Search/Ads infrastructure, auction mechanics, or generative AI models.
• Strong mathematical skills with knowledge of statistical methods.

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

In this role, you will be part of Search Ads and Ads on Google Experiences, creating useful ads that address user needs, complete tasks, and deliver meaningful ROI for advertisers. You will partner with Product, Sales, Marketing, Buyside Platform, and Policy teams. Ad Creatives sits at the heart of this experience, driving automation and transforming our product for an AI-first world.

You will help compose ads meeting user and advertiser needs. GenAI accelerates building and shipping products that automate generating and composing 'high quality' assets and monetizing new AI surfaces.

Google Ads is at the forefront of AI innovation, applying machine learning and Generative AI models like Gemini to power a multi-billion dollar global business.

Our work directly impacts billions of users by protecting users from harm, improving ad quality, and optimizing campaigns for advertiser return-on-investment. We foster a culture of deep collaboration, partnering closely with teams like Google Research and DeepMind to solve complex challenges. Join us to work on state-of-the-art AI, take on problems at an unparalleled scale, and build the next generation of advertising technology.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Work in an environment that embraces automation of ad creation while keeping a strict oversight of advertiser constraints and Return on Investment (ROI).
• Drive 10x product adoption and creative thinking on "finding" or building the right quality, extraction, data models and data-driven execution.
• Build scalable end-to-end infrastructure that can serve under tight latency and freshness constraints.
• Collaborate closely with organization partners and tech stack (e.g. prediction, auction, data flow), and key stakeholders to help identify the right solution, while taking on TL responsibilities such as setting the roadmap, goal, and cross-team Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
• Refine user and advertiser experiences to find one that meets their needs.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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