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Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML, Search Growth

Google

Mountain View, CA

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JOB DETAILS
JOB TYPE
Full-time, Employee
SKILLS
A/B Testing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI) Natural Language, Business Growth, C++ Programming Language, Computer Science, Data Sets, Data Storage, Deep Learning, Distributed Computing, Ecosystems, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Google Search Engine, High Throughput, Information Retrieval, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Internet Search, JAX (Java API for XML), Java, Kotlin, Large-Scale Systems, Leadership, Modeling Languages, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Network Design, Performance Modeling, Performance Testing, Problem Solving Skills, Product/Service Launch, Reinforcement Learning, Return on Investment (ROI), Software Architecture, Software Architecture Design, Software Engineering, Technical/Engineering Design, Testing, User Interface Design
LOCATION
Mountain View, CA
POSTED
16 days ago

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with one general-purpose systems language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, C++, or Go).
  • 4 years of experience building and maintaining production-grade, latency-sensitive backend or ML systems.
  • 3 years of experience in Deep Learning and ML System Design.
  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • Experience in Recommendation Systems (Ranking/Prediction), NLP, Reinforcement Learning, or Information Retrieval.
  • Ability to deep-dive into datasets to identify the next high-Return on Investment (ROI) area for technical investment.
  • Ability to balance long-term platform health and engineering with short-term business and growth goals, to address engineering problems at Search scale.
  • Ability to drive technical designs from concept to launch while successfully challenging the status quo.
  • Ability to start in Mountain View within 4 weeks of offer accept.

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 manage information at a 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. In this role, you will design the new intelligence layer of the Search’s growth ecosystem with a new long-term life-cycle model.In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve engineering issues and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $174,000-$252,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Design and deploy advanced models (e.g., Contextual Bandits, Transformers, Sequence Modeling) to optimize promo inventory by leveraging on multi-headed objective functions that balance growth goals against user annoyance costs.
  • Build systems for training, deploying, and monitoring models. Scale our ML training infrastructure with TensorFlow and JAX.
  • Optimize model architectures for high-throughput, low-latency environments, ensuring the ML models never compromise core Search performance.
  • Drive model performance by testing and ingesting novel signals (including multi-modal embeddings and Large Language Model (LLM)-generated user profiles), designing and executing A/B tests to measure ML-driven feature effectiveness, and iterating quickly based on findings.
  • Build the engine that manages and generates hyper-personalized, multi-turn LLM prompts within the new AI Mode infrastructure.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

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