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Senior Staff Tech Lead, YouTube Shorts Discovery

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13 hours ago
Mountain View, CA, USA or San Bruno, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$262k - $364k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define technical strategy for YouTube Shorts discovery models and systems to improve viewer satisfaction and viewer and creator growth.
  • Provide technical leadership while designing, developing, testing, and deploying large-scale recommendation models and novel model architectures.
  • Optimize ML infrastructure supporting recommendation systems.
  • Partner with engineering, product, data science, and research teams to turn business goals into scalable technical solutions.
  • Facilitate alignment across teams on goals, priorities, outcomes, and timelines.
  • Mentor and influence junior engineers.

Requirements

  • 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 work with industry-scale ML infrastructure, including model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, and fine-tuning.
  • 5 years of experience with software design and architecture and with testing and launching software products.
  • 5 years of experience building and deploying production recommendation system models, including retrieval, prediction, ranking, and embedding models.
  • Experience building architecture across different modeling domains.
  • Preferred: master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • Preferred: 8 years of industry experience in AI/ML recommendations and the recommendations technology domain.
  • Preferred: 5 years in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  • Preferred: 5 years with large-scale recommendation or search systems, reinforcement learning, ML infrastructure, or another ML specialization.

Benefits

  • US base salary of $262000-$364000, plus a 25% bonus target, equity, and benefits.
  • Google benefits are available; further details are provided through Google’s benefits information.
  • The role involves technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration across engineering, product, data science, and research teams.

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About Google

10,000+ employees

Google builds consumer and enterprise software and services including Search, Android, YouTube, Chrome, Maps, Gmail, and Google Cloud. Its business model centers on digital advertising and paid cloud, software, and hardware offerings (e.g., Pixel and Nest) for consumers, developers, and organizations. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Google operates globally as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

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