Senior Software Engineer, Search Ads, Quality and AI

Senior Software Engineer, Search Ads, Quality and AI

Google

Zurich, Switzerland

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in C++ and Python.
• 3 years of experience with one or more of the following: deep learning, reinforcement learning, generative AI, or specialization in another ML field.
• 3 years of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging).
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to manage information at a massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

In this role, you will be involved in the full AI model life-cycle, from design choices to training to efficient deployment of serving models in production at the scale of Search Ads. You will innovate while collaborating with other teams, including research, to test and implement the latest technologies in our models.In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve engineering issues and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain machine learning models while writing and testing related products or system development code.
• Design and iterate on machine learning model architectures and training recipes, improving quality and efficiency across the entire model life-cycle.
• Solve machine learning related problems by designing, running, and analyzing experiments using problem-solving and statistical methods.
• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies (e.g., prompt optimization and training recipes, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).