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Staff Software Engineer, Youtube Ads Surfaces and Experiences

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22 hours ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$207k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Drive long-term engineering strategy for YouTube Ads surfaces, incorporating business priorities and new AI capabilities.
  • Own major technical decisions involving design tradeoffs, system health, long-term strategy, and risk management.
  • Identify system hotspots and make investments that improve technical health, productivity, and feature throughput.
  • Coach and mentor current and emerging technical leaders through direct and scalable initiatives.
  • Collaborate across teams, quality, and client infrastructure groups to build consistent features across surfaces while balancing platform constraints.

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 optimizing ML infrastructure, including model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, and fine-tuning.
  • 5 years of experience with software design and architecture, testing, and product launches.
  • Experience working within Ads.
  • Experience with state-of-the-art GenAI techniques such as Large Language Models, multimodal systems, or Large Vision Models, or with language modeling and computer vision concepts.
  • Preferred: Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • Preferred: experience leading full-stack engineering, distributed systems, or quality teams and scaling architecture.
  • Preferred: ability to anticipate and mitigate obstacles in ambiguous or rapidly changing environments.
  • Preferred: exceptional communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional directors and leaders.

Benefits

  • US base salary of $207000 - $300000, plus a 20% bonus target, equity, and benefits.
  • Google benefits are available; specific benefits are described through Google's benefits information.

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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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