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Tech Lead, YouTube Shorts Discovery, ML Recommendations

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

$207k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to personalized quality recommendations and the Shorts discovery/recommendation engine, including LLM-based recommendation systems.
  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects and manage priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
  • Align distributed engineering teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines while influencing and coaching engineers.
  • Lead the design and implementation of solutions in specialized ML areas and optimize ML infrastructure, model optimization, and data processing strategies.
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 5 years of experience testing and launching software products and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
  • 5 years of experience with speech/audio, reinforcement learning, or another ML field.
  • 5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure, including model deployment, evaluation, data processing, debugging, or fine-tuning.
  • Preferred: master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, or a related technical field.
  • Preferred: experience with data structures and algorithms, distributed large-scale ML systems, technical leadership, recommendation systems, personalized ranking, retrieval systems, cold-start problems, reinforcement learning, or exploration/exploitation algorithms.

Benefits

  • US base salary of $207000-$300000, plus a 20% bonus target, equity, and benefits.
  • Google benefits are available; details are provided through the company benefits page.
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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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