Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ai/ml, Google Ads

Google Google · Big Tech · Mountain View, CA +1

Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google Ads focusing on large-scale ML infrastructure optimization, model deployment, evaluation, data processing, fine-tuning, and specialization in areas like Speech/audio or reinforcement learning. The role involves technical leadership, project strategy, and driving solutions across multiple ML areas.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.
  2. Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects. Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
  3. Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines. Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
  4. Drive technical project strategy, lead large-scale ML infrastructure optimization, and oversee the design and implementation of solutions across multiple specialized ML areas.

Skills

Required

  • Python or C++
  • leading technical project strategy
  • ML design
  • optimizing industry-scale ML infrastructure
  • model deployment
  • model evaluation
  • data processing
  • debugging
  • fine tuning
  • design and architecture
  • testing/launching software products
  • Speech/audio
  • reinforcement learning
  • ML infrastructure

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • data structures/algorithms
  • technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction
  • cross-functional, or cross-business projects

What the JD emphasized

  • 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and optimizing industry-scale ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
  • 5 years of experience with one or more of the following: Speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.

Other signals

  • large scale ML infrastructure optimization
  • model deployment
  • model evaluation
  • data processing
  • fine tuning
  • Speech/audio
  • reinforcement learning