Staff ML Engineer, Search Personalization — Scale & Impact

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

Job summary

Google Mountain View, CA is seeking a Machine Learning Staff Software Engineer for the Search Personalization team. You will lead the design, development and deployment of scalable ML models that power Discover and Search personalization.

You’ll own outcomes, influence stakeholders across teams, and drive end-to-end delivery from design to production. The role demands deep experience with recommender systems, ML infrastructure, and large-scale systems in production environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• 5 years building and deploying recommendation systems models in production.
• 5 years of ML design and ML infrastructure experience.
• 5 years testing, launching software products; 3 years in architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Build and improve personalized user models for Discover/Google Search.
• Scale models to billions of users.

Skills

ML design & infra

Recommendation systems

Distributed systems

Embedding models

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

8 years of software development experience

Tools

TensorFlow

C++

Dremel/F1

Job description

Google Mountain View, CA is seeking a Machine Learning Staff Software Engineer for the Search Personalization team. You will lead the design, development and deployment of scalable ML models that power Discover and Search personalization.

You’ll own outcomes, influence stakeholders across teams, and drive end-to-end delivery from design to production. The role demands deep experience with recommender systems, ML infrastructure, and large-scale systems in production environments.