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 within YouTube Ads, specifically on bidding and advertiser optimization. Responsibilities include writing product/system development code, collaborating on design and code reviews, contributing to documentation, triaging and debugging issues, and implementing solutions in ML areas, utilizing ML infrastructure, and contributing to model optimization and data processing. Requires experience with software development and ML infrastructure, with preferred experience in ranking algorithms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Implement solutions in one or more specialized ML areas, utilize ML infrastructure, and contribute to model optimization and data processing.
  2. Write product or system development code.
  3. 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).
  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. Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.

Skills

Required

  • Software development
  • ML infrastructure
  • model deployment
  • model evaluation
  • optimization
  • data processing
  • debugging
  • Speech/audio
  • reinforcement learning
  • sequential decision making

Nice to have

  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • machine learning systems
  • quality
  • ranking algorithms
  • search ranking
  • ads quality
  • recommendations
  • P/R concepts

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