Staff Software Engineer, AI/ML, Safe Search

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• 5 years of experience with one or more of the following: 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.
• 5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• Experience in Python programming.

Nice to haves:

• Experience in prompt engineering and applying Large Language Models for data labeling.
• Experience with building classifiers, machine learning, AI, ranking, and research.
• Experience coding in C++ or Kotlin.
• Experience in Trust and Safety or Search Quality.

What you'll be doing:

• Make choices on when to leverage new Large Language Model (LLM) tech (and how) versus using existing processes to architect AI Raters and safety models across Google products.
• Partner with teams across Search, bridging the gap between Engineering, Product Management, and Policy.
• Improve evaluations (evals) and measurement systems, running experiments, ensuring that Search launches continue to remain effective and protecting Search safety against regressions.
• Guide prototyping, in-depth evaluations, and launches of changes that proactively make Search safer - ranging from ranking improvements to better AI-generated responses.
• Define model behaviors and safety protections within the core Search stack.

Perks and benefits:

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• Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer with a commitment to building a workforce that is representative of the users served.
• English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.
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