Staff Software Engineer, Youtube Ads Machine Learning

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

Staff Software Engineer role at Google YouTube Ads focusing on Machine Learning. The role involves designing, developing, and deploying large-scale software solutions, with a strong emphasis on ML infrastructure, model optimization, data processing, and building recommendation systems. Requires technical leadership and experience in ML design and deployment.

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.
  4. Lead the design and implementation of solutions in specialized ML areas, optimize ML infrastructure, and guide the development of model optimization and data processing strategies.
  5. Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.

Skills

Required

  • software development
  • software products
  • software design and architecture
  • ML design
  • ML infrastructure
  • model deployment
  • model evaluation
  • data processing
  • debugging
  • fine tuning
  • recommendation system models
  • ranking
  • retrieval
  • embedding

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • data structures and algorithms
  • technical leadership role
  • complex, matrixed organization
  • cross-functional, or cross-business projects

What the JD emphasized

  • 5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
  • 5 years of experience building and deploying recommendation system models (e.g. ranking, retrieval, embedding).

Other signals

  • large scale software solutions
  • ML infrastructure
  • model optimization
  • data processing strategies
  • recommendation system models