Google

Senior Software Engineer, Map Ads, Machine Learning

Google$174K — $253K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
  • 5 years of programming experience in C and SQL.
  • 3 years of experience in reinforcement learning or machine learning infrastructure.
  • 3 years of software testing and maintenance experience.
  • 1 year of software design and architecture experience.

Responsibilities

  • Triage and resolve product or system issues by analyzing their impact.
  • Implement high-performance ML models for relevance optimization.
  • Create a new relevance model utilizing deep personalization techniques.
  • Use LLM-based distillation for model training in complex scenarios.
  • Develop frameworks for evaluating ad quality through simulated user personas.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • Generous paid time off and flexible work arrangements.
  • Retirement savings plans with company matching.
  • Employee development programs and educational reimbursements.
  • Wellbeing initiatives and support for mental health.
Full Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience programming in C and SQL.
  • 3 years of experience with one or more of the following: reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), recommendations/ranking, LLMs, ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
  • 3 years of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).
  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience with working on Ads or product quality improvement areas.
  • Experience with integrating new machine learning research techniques.
  • Experience with working on ranking and retrieval models.


About the job

In this role, you will build the next generation of modeling and quality infrastructure for queryless ad formats-a complex space where user intent is implicit rather than stated. You will lead technical roadmaps across retrieval, auction, and measurement, utilizing techniques such as Large Language Model (LLM)-based distillation and differential modeling.

As a technical leader, you will work separately to identify new opportunities, driving quality and business improvements across the entire stack while collaborating with cross-organizational teams in Organic Maps and Personalization. This is a unique opportunity to use advanced AI to shape the future of local discovery at scale and triple our impact over the next five years.

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We're made up of multiple teams, building Google's Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $253000 (USD) 15% bonus target bonus equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • 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.
  • Move to high-performance ML models utilizing factorization for sub-millisecond relevance optimization.
  • Build a new pRelevance model that incorporates deep personalization signals through non-traditional techniques like differential modeling and transfer learning.
  • Leverage LLM based distillation to teach models what is relevant in scenarios where manual dataset creation is unfeasible.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks where LLMs simulate user personas to predict true ad quality.


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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Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
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$182.5 billion
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