Staff Software Engineer - Geo ML & Ranking Lead

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

Job summary

Google Mountain View, CA seeks a Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead for Geo User Generated Content Ranking Quality. You will design, develop, test, and deploy large-scale systems, lead critical projects, and collaborate across teams to improve Maps and related products.

This role emphasizes architecture in ML/AI, experience with recommendation systems, and ability to operate in a fast-paced, matrixed environment. Equal opportunity employer; English proficiency required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience building and deploying recommendation systems models in production and 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).
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or Large Language Model (LLM) interfaces into workflows.

Responsibilities

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

Recommendation systems

ML design & infra

Generative AI / LLM integration

Leadership in projects

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

ML infrastructure tooling

Job description

Google Mountain View, CA seeks a Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead for Geo User Generated Content Ranking Quality. You will design, develop, test, and deploy large-scale systems, lead critical projects, and collaborate across teams to improve Maps and related products.

This role emphasizes architecture in ML/AI, experience with recommendation systems, and ability to operate in a fast-paced, matrixed environment. Equal opportunity employer; English proficiency required.