Google

Staff ML Engineer, Search Discover Feed Recommendation

Google$207K — $300K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years in software development.
  • 5 years in machine learning, recommendation systems, or natural language processing.
  • Experience with evaluation frameworks for Large Language Models (e.g., LLM-as-a-judge, RLHF, DPO).
  • Experience integrating generative AI tools into workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Build advanced AIGC quality frameworks for platforms like Discover and Notifications.
  • Develop engaging AI-generated content using context engineering and feedback loops.
  • Conduct quality evaluations and leverage recommendation signals for AIGC performance enhancement.
  • Resolve system-level bottlenecks to optimize AIGC content delivery.
  • Drive technical innovation and influence organizational machine learning strategy.

Benefits

  • Generous 20% bonus target.
  • Equity benefits.
  • Comprehensive healthcare and wellness programs.
  • Work-life balance initiatives.
  • Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.
Full Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 5 years of experience in machine learning, recommendation systems, natural language processing, or a related field.
  • Experience building offline and online quality evaluation frameworks for Large Language Models (e.g., LLM-as-a-judge, RLHF, DPO).
  • Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  • Experience optimizing machine learning inference, resolving system-level bottlenecks, and improving serving efficiency for low-latency global surfaces.
  • Experience integrating large language model quality evaluation frameworks with downstream recommendation signals.


About the job

The Discover Feed Recommendation team leads by recommending AI-generated content (AIGC) to fulfill user interests. As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer focusing on Search AIGC Quality, you will be responsible for AIGC quality control, topic identification, context engineering, and content understanding. You will build the agentic loops and evaluation frameworks needed to ensure factuality, freshness, coherence, and tone for AI-generated content that empowers users across Google's proactive surfaces like Discover and Notifications.

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: $207000 - $300000 (USD) 20% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Build advanced AI-generated content (AIGC) quality frameworks and agentic flows to generate content for proactive surfaces like Discover and Notifications.
  • Develop AI-generated content through advanced context engineering and agentic feedback loops to identify and deliver engaging stories globally.
  • Conduct advanced quality evaluations and leverage downstream dense recommendation signals and feedback to improve the performance of the AIGC stack.
  • Resolve key system-level bottlenecks in recommending and serving AIGC content to optimize efficiency for low-latency surfaces.
  • Navigate high ambiguity, drive technical innovation for AIGC quality, and influence the broader organizational machine learning strategy.


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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$40.2 billion
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1998
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