Google

Tech Lead, YouTube Shorts Discovery, ML Recommendations

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

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 5 years of experience in testing and launching software products, with 3 years in software design and architecture.
  • 5 years of experience in areas like Speech/audio technology, reinforcement learning, or ML infrastructure.
  • 5 years working with ML design and infrastructure including model deployment and evaluation.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects and manage priorities and deliverables.
  • Facilitate alignment across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines while coaching engineers.
  • Lead the design and implementation of ML solutions, optimizing infrastructure and strategies for model optimization.
  • Drive the direction of YouTube Shorts, impacting the recommendation algorithms significantly.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision.
  • Generous retirement savings plan including company contributions.
  • Paid time off and leave policies for personal well-being.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and work culture that fosters innovation.
  • Professional development programs and opportunities for 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 testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
  • 5 years of experience with one or more of the following: Speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
  • 5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, or a related technical field.
  • 8 years of experience in data structures and algorithms, with experience building distributed, large-scale machine learning systems.
  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role, defining technical goals, setting roadmap direction, and mentoring executive engineering teams.
  • Experience designing and deploying recommendation systems, personalized ranking models, or retrieval systems.
  • Expertise in managing the cold-start problem, reinforcement learning, or exploration/exploitation algorithms.


About the job

In this role, you will lead the Short-form Video Exploration team and drive the success of YouTube shorts, a top strategic initiative. The Short-form Video team manages the entire ecosystem: from mobile creation tools and effects (text, stickers, filters) to a seamless, full-screen player experience. We also build the backend systems required to create, serve, and recommend these videos across Home, Search, and beyond.

Shorts Exploration is a critical component of our recommendation strategy. Our mission is to identify initial audiences for fresh content, expanding our recommendable corpus and inspiring further creation. To achieve this, we leverage advanced modeling techniques and signals to build these audiences directly within the recommendation stack.
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
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects. Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
  • Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines. Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
  • Lead the design and implementation of solutions in specialized ML areas, optimize ML infrastructure, and guide the development of model optimization and data processing strategies.


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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