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Google · 22 hours ago

Senior Software Engineer, Generative AI/ML, Search Ads

Kirkland, WA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$166K/yr - $244K/yr

5+ years exp

Google is a leading technology company that develops next-generation technologies impacting billions of users. The Senior Software Engineer will work on critical projects, focusing on designing and implementing recommendation systems and leveraging machine learning infrastructure.

AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Write and test product or system development code

Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency)

Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback

Design and implement recommendation systems models across different domains, leverage ML infrastructure, and contribute to architecture design

Work with and finetune LLMs for targeting, large-scale retrieval, pseudo-rater, and other Ads applications

Qualification

PythonMachine Learning infrastructureRecommendation systemsData structuresAlgorithmsNatural Language ProcessingGenAI techniquesLarge data setsTechnical leadership

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

5 years of experience in software development with Python

3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture

3 years of experience building and deploying recommendation systems models (retrieval, prediction, ranking, personalization, search quality, embedding) in production and experience building architecture

3 years of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging)

Preferred

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field

5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms

3 years of experience working with very large data set

1 year of experience in a technical leadership role

1 year of experience with GenAI techniques (e.g., Large Language Models, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or with GenAI-related concepts (e.g., language modeling, computer vision)

Experience in building products using Machine Learning techniques including Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Company

Google

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Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, advertising, and software. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.

Founded in 1998

Mountain View, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.google.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (8763)

2024 (8872)

2023 (9682)

2022 (11626)

2021 (9109)

2020 (9785)

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$26.1M

Key Investors

Andy Bechtolsheim

2004-08-19IPO

1999-06-07Series Unknown· $25M

1998-11-01Angel· $1M

Leadership Team

Sundar Pichai

CEO

Thomas Kurian

CEO - Google Cloud

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