Minimum qualifications:- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and optimizing ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
- 5 years of experience with design and architecture along with testing and launching software products.
- Experience working within Ads.
- Experience with state of the art GenAI techniques (e.g., Large Language Models (LLMs), Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or with GenAI-related concepts (language modeling, computer vision).
Preferred qualifications:- Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Experience leading full stack engineering, distributed systems teams, or quality teams, effectively leading technical strategy and scaling architecture.
- Ability to strategically anticipate and mitigate obstacles in ambiguous or rapidly shifting environments.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills to align agendas and strategy with cross-functional directors and leaders.
About the jobIn this role, you will be responsible for driving the long-term engineering strategy for enabling format optimizations, new experiences, incorporating organizational business priorities and technological shifts, such as new AI capabilities.
You will act as a de facto authority on major systems and drive the engineering strategy for a critical technical area of great importance to YouTube Ads. Operating with excellent judgment and minimal oversight, you will uncover and address ambiguous, complex, and large-scale technical problems. Your role involves thinking strategically over long time horizons, establishing consensus across divergent teams, and driving technical and process improvements across an organization of over 100 engineers. You will need to take data driven approaches along with focusing on making our systems scalable, safer, more reliable, and highly robust.
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 - Drive the long-term engineering strategy, incorporating organizational business priorities and technological shifts, such as new AI capabilities.
- Own key technical decisions based on your expertise, guiding the team through important design tradeoffs, short term/long term strategy, system health, and risk management.
- Identify system hotspots to improve the organization's technical health, ensuring the calculated investments are made to remove widely-felt barriers to productivity/feature throughput.
- Invest in growing the next generation of technical leaders through direct coaching and scalable mentorship initiatives.
- Work cross-functionally to ensure features are built consistently across different surfaces working closely with other teams, quality, client infrastructure teams while balancing specific platform constraints to make decisions that are best for the business overall.
