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Staff Software Engineer, YouTube Ads Experiences

Google · United States · On-site

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About the role

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years of experience in software development
  • 5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning)
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture
  • Experience integrating generative AI tools or Large Language Model (LLM) interfaces into workflows
  • Experience applying AI (Gemini, GenAI, LLM) towards solving real-world technical problems
More about this role
  • Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines, and influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
  • Leverage AI strategically to solve complex layout and interaction problems, using it or not for its own sake but to build smarter, more adaptive products.
  • Partner directly with YouTube’s "Organic" product teams to re-envision the app experience, going beyond simply adding ads by helping build step-function changes to how users interact with the YouTube App.
  • Lead the effort to reduce friction between an ad and its destination, owning the full-stack, from deep infrastructure and foundation layers to the application-level UI.
  • Drive the next-generation of ad experiences, especially on Consumption Surfaces (Watch, and Shorts surfaces, account for 87% YT ads revenue), by optimizing existing inventory and innovating new experiences to meet evolving user and advertiser needs.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
  • 5 years of...

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