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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Generative Retail Ad Formats and LLM Applications

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4 days ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$262k - $364k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Solve open-ended Generative AI and retail advertising problems, including real-time composition and personalization of ad formats.
  • Influence organizational strategy, prioritization, technical roadmaps, and product strategy with cross-functional leadership.
  • Partner with Ads Quality, Commerce, and Search stakeholders to optimize retail ad products and whole-page layouts end to end.
  • Own holistic technical architecture and lead complex, multi-quarter, cross-team initiatives from design through launch.
  • Diagnose cross-system bottlenecks and improve engineering excellence, experimentation velocity, and production reliability.
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions while managing project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 8 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages, including data structures and algorithms.
  • At least 8 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products and 5 years of software design and architecture experience.
  • At least 8 years of experience with ML/AI algorithms and tools, deep learning, or other modeling.
  • At least 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and ML infrastructure, including model deployment, evaluation, data processing, debugging, and fine-tuning.
  • At least 2 years of GenAI experience involving areas such as LLMs, multimodal or vision models, language modeling, or computer vision.
  • Preferred: PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field.
  • Preferred: experience with GenAI model fine-tuning, large language model building, product enablement, and applying GenAI or machine learning to real-world content problems.
  • Preferred: deep familiarity with Search, Shopping, and Ads systems; direct experience applying LLMs in user-facing products; strong mathematical and statistical skills; and experience with data-driven decision-making and cross-functional alignment.

Benefits

  • The role is based in the US and includes benefits, equity, and a 25% bonus target in addition to base pay.
  • The position offers opportunities to work with Google Ads, Commerce, Search, Google Research, and DeepMind on state-of-the-art AI systems at massive scale.
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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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