Google

Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML, Search Discover Personalization

Google$174K — $252K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience in software development using Python.
  • 3 years in building and deploying recommendation systems with experience in production architecture.
  • 3 years testing and maintaining software products, with 1 year in software design and architecture.

Responsibilities

  • Innovate methodologies to understand user interests and develop content retrieval techniques.
  • Collaborate with teams to identify user problems and apply personalization opportunities.
  • Work with large-scale user data to create scalable training data and implement ML algorithms.
  • Iterate on model quality through evaluations, demonstrations, and live experiments to enhance product impact.
  • Integrate models with existing systems to ensure efficiency, taking ownership of projects from ideation to maintenance.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs.
  • Generous parental leave and family support options.
  • Retirement plan with company match.
  • Access to employee resource groups and a strong diversity and inclusion program.
Full Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in Python.
  • 3 years of experience building and deploying recommendation systems models
    (retrieval, prediction, ranking, personalization, search quality,
    embedding) in production; and experience building architecture.
  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 3 years of experience developing and optimizing deep learning algorithms
    and architectures.
  • 3 years of experience with machine learning algorithms and tools (e.g. JAX, TensorFlow, deep learning, natural language processing, LLM based applications, LLM finetuning, etc.).
  • Experience with user understanding and personalization and a passion for diving deep into recommender systems.
  • Strong software development experience with a high level of mathematical aptitude, demonstrated problem-solving skills, and proven logical, problem-solving, and investigative thinking.


About the job
Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information - any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Innovate on the methodology of understanding user's interests. Develop and apply techniques for content retrieval.
  • Collaborate with partners and teammates to understand the user problems and opportunities for applying personalization.
  • Work with the large-scale user data to generate desired training data in a reliable and scalable manner. Implement and experiment with different state of art ML algorithms and model architectures, including but not limited to LLM, deep learning, distillation, etc.
  • Iterate on the model quality via evaluations, demonstrations and live experiments to realize positive product impacts. Leverage the user understanding model to retrieve content across content formats (articles, posts, videos, AI generated content, etc.).
  • Integrate models/components with Discover stack to ensure system efficiency and effectiveness. Take full ownership of projects, including ideation, implementation, analysis, and maintenance.


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About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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156,500 employees
Market Cap
$1,115.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+23.3%
Revenue
$182.5 billion
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