Staff Software Engineer, YouTube Ads Marketplace AI

Google LLC

Mountain View, Northern (CA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 207,000 - 300,000

Full time

23 hours ago

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Job summary

Google LLC in Mountain View, CA seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead YouTube Ads Marketplace Optimization. You will design and deploy large-scale software, guide ML/AI workflows, and drive system architecture across cross-functional teams.

You will lead a team of engineers focused on ad optimization models and scalable infrastructure, with emphasis on retrieval, prediction, and ranking in production. Equity and bonus are part of total compensation.

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 high-impact 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.