Software Engineer, Ai/ml, Youtube Ads Bidding and Advertiser Optimization

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

Software Engineer role focused on AI/ML for YouTube Ads bidding and advertiser optimization. Responsibilities include writing product/system development code, collaborating on design/code reviews, contributing to documentation, triaging/debugging issues, and implementing solutions in ML areas using ML infrastructure, model optimization, and data processing. Requires experience with software development and ML infrastructure, with preferred experience in ML systems, quality, and ranking algorithms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Write product or system development code.
  2. Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  3. Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
  4. Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
  5. Implement solutions in one or more specialized ML areas, utilize ML infrastructure, and contribute to model optimization and data processing.

Skills

Required

  • Software development in one or more programming languages
  • Speech/audio experience OR reinforcement learning experience OR ML infrastructure experience OR specialization in another ML field
  • ML infrastructure experience (model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging)

Nice to have

  • Data structures and algorithms
  • Machine learning systems
  • Quality
  • Ranking algorithms (e.g. search ranking, ads quality, recommendations)

What the JD emphasized

  • 1 year 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.
  • 1 year of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).

Other signals

  • ML infrastructure
  • model optimization
  • data processing
  • ranking algorithms