Senior Staff Software Engineer, Search, Ads Query Understanding

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in technology is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to drive innovation in Search and Ads Query Understanding. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in software development, natural language processing, and technical leadership. This role involves managing high-impact projects and collaborating across teams to enhance large-scale software solutions, contributing to the next generation of technologies that change how users interact with information.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.

Skills

Natural Language Processing

Deep Learning

Technical Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science

Job description

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Search, Ads Query Understanding

Google Mountain View, CA, USA

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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience processing natural language and large language models.
• Experience with algorithms that use deep learning techniques and data sets to summarize, generate, and predict new content.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.

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.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.

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