Google

Staff Software Engineer, AI/ML, Search Ads

Google$207K — $301K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 8 years of software development experience
  • 8 years experience with programming languages (Java, C/C++, Python)
  • 5 years of ML design and infrastructure experience
  • Experience with multimodal machine learning or LLMs
  • Experience building AI-first systems in production

Responsibilities

  • Optimize search results and ads co-evolution
  • Leverage AI/ML advancements to solve optimization problems
  • Deliver AI-enhanced ad experiences
  • Design and maintain self-service tools for AI/ML quality evaluation
  • Architect systems for deploying AI models for data quality assessment

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Generous vacation policy
  • Wellness programs
  • Professional development opportunities
Full Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 8 years of experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, C/C or Python.
  • 5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
  • Experience with multimodal machine learning or LLMs, including building and launching products.
  • Experience building, experimenting, and deploying AI-first systems and processes into production.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience in applied AI/ML, including model development, fine-tuning, application and evaluation.
  • Experience leveraging Generative AI/LLMs for user-facing problems.
  • Experience designing and building full-stack systems and self-service platforms.
  • Experience with search/ads or quality systems.
  • Familiarity with the latest research and trends in AI/ML, particularly as applicable to data quality and assessment.
  • Understanding of GenAI data, evaluation methodologies, and data quality best practices.


About the job

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

In this role, you will lead efforts, address foundational, open-ended problems in partnership with teams across Ads and DeepMind, and leverage AI to build 10x better ads experiences.
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: $207000 - $301000 (USD) 20% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Optimize the Search results page (including organic results and ads) to co-evolve ads, leverage AI to maintain business generation, create ad experiences, help users find content faster, and enable growth opportunities for advertisers.
  • Leverage AI/ML advancements, including Large Language Models (LLMs) and Agentic AI, to solve optimization problems across search ads, from product innovation to agentic automation.
  • Deliver ad experiences in the world of AI.
  • Design, build, and maintain self-service tools and platform features that embed AI/ML quality evaluation methods.
  • Architect systems for deploying and serving AI/ML models specifically for data quality assessment tasks.


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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Size
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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