Staff Software Engineer, Youtube Ads Machine Learning

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

Staff Software Engineer for YouTube Ads Machine Learning at Google, focusing on designing, developing, and deploying large-scale ML solutions for advertising products. The role involves technical leadership, optimizing ML infrastructure, and building recommendation system models.

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

  • technical leadership
  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • complex, matrixed organization
  • cross-functional 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

  • ML infrastructure
  • model optimization
  • recommendation system models