Staff Software Engineer, Youtube Ads Machine Learning

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

Staff Software Engineer at Google YouTube Ads ML team, 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 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

  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • technical leadership
  • cross-functional projects

What the JD emphasized

  • 8 years of experience in software development
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture
  • 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