Senior Software Engineer, Ranking Personalization, Search

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 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 a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• 3 years of experience with Machine Learning (ML) infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).
• 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 handle information at 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 Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges 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

• Design and analyze search ranking algorithms and architecture, potentially leveraging AI (e.g. LLMs, DNN) and C++, aimed at improving Search ranking results.
• Interface with product managers and other teams, engineers to conceive and implement solutions.
• Train and debug machine learning models that power current and future search ranking solutions, specially at personalizing the user experience within search.
• Analyze experimental results and help decide launchable state for projects.
• Develop and execute analysis tasks either regarding quality, infrastructure, or front-end that works cross-functionally with product managers and other teams to come up with algorithmic solutions that work across the search queries to personalize the search results towards user interests.