Staff Software Engineer - YouTube Ads ML & Marketplace

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

Job summary

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 beyond web search.

We seek engineers who bring ideas from information retrieval to AI and model architecture across teams. In this role, you will help lead a team of ML/AI/SW engineers to grow the YouTube Ads business by understanding user interest and

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 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.

Skills

Software development

Testing and launching software

Software design and architecture

Recommendation systems

ML design and infrastructure

Generative AI / LLM integration

Data structures and algorithms

Technical leadership

Cross-functional / matrixed work

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering or CS

Tools

LLM interfaces

Job description

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 beyond web search.

We seek engineers who bring ideas from information retrieval to AI and model architecture across teams. In this role, you will help lead a team of ML/AI/SW engineers to grow the YouTube Ads business by understanding user interest and