Software Engineer III, Search Ads, AI/ML

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in C++ and Python.
• 2 years of experience with Distributed Computing.
• 1 year of experience with Speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
• 1 year of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• Experience with TensorFlow, Natural Language Processing, Search Quality, Ad Quality, Information Retrieval, Quantitative Research.
• Experience with data science, statistics, natural language processing, computer vision, etc.
• 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.

Ads Quality Zurich is part of Search Ads - the text ads shown on Google Search which power the majority of Google’s business growth and connect millions of businesses to customers.

In this role, you will use the latest results from machine learning and natural language processing as well as from ranking and information retrieval to make this as easy and automatic as possible.

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Own projects end-to-end from initial idea to design, analysis, and implementation.
• Understand production systems, visualize, monitor, and optimize performance.
• Design, build, and deploy models, classifiers, scoring systems to solve business-critical problems.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest tools and research in the field.
  
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .