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Google

Machine Learning Software Engineer, Decision Forests

Google
Switzerland · Full-time · Not Applicable

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
  • 2 years of experience with C++ and Python.
  • Experience with machine learning/AI in a software development environment.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • Experience with one or more neural network frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow or Jax.
  • Experience with applied machine learning/machine learning research.
  • Experience with decision trees.

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.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

  • Take co-ownership of new feature development (e.g., design, implementation, UX experiments, maintenance), drive corresponding applied research (reading papers, experimentation and benchmarking, possibly attending/publishing-in conferences), client collaboration (ranging from small consultations to deep engagements), and collaboration with other researchers.
  • Develop training capability on GPU and TPU of oblique, and other complex, forest models.
  • Design and productionize continuous learning algorithms and other tools/capabilities to make models to data distribution drift, training data storage policies, prediction churn, and removal/update of input signal.
  • Improve anomaly detection algorithms and productionize them into highly usable and integrated features.
  • Interact and collaborate (e.g., brainstorming, cross-project collaboration) with other topics, notably graph neural networks and agents.


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 .

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storage cloud natural language processing artificial intelligence distributed computing data structures neural networks tensorflow pytorch ui ux c
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Posted
Jan 28, 2026
Type
Full-time
Level
Not Applicable
Location
Zurich
Company
Google

Industries

Information Services Technology Information Internet

Categories

Information Technology Engineering

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