Google

Staff ML Engineer, Search Discover Feed Recommendation

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11 hours ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$207k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build AI-generated content quality frameworks and agentic flows for Discover and Notifications.
  • Develop AIGC using context engineering and agentic feedback loops to identify and deliver engaging stories globally.
  • Conduct quality evaluations and use downstream dense recommendation signals and feedback to improve the AIGC stack.
  • Resolve system-level bottlenecks in AIGC recommendation and serving to optimize low-latency efficiency.
  • Drive technical innovation and influence the broader organizational machine learning strategy.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 8 years of software development experience.
  • At least 5 years of experience in machine learning, recommendation systems, natural language processing, or a related field.
  • Experience building offline and online quality evaluation frameworks for large language models, including techniques such as LLM-as-a-judge, RLHF, or DPO.
  • Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.
  • Preferred: Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • Preferred: 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • Preferred: 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  • Preferred: experience optimizing machine learning inference, resolving system-level bottlenecks, improving serving efficiency, and integrating LLM quality evaluation frameworks with downstream recommendation signals.

Benefits

  • Bonus target, equity, and Google benefits are provided.
  • The role contributes to products serving users globally across Google Search, Discover, and Notifications.

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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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