Software Engineer III, AI/ML, YouTube Shopping

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 1 year 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.
• 1 year of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).

Nice to haves:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with deep learning tools (e.g., TensorFlow, TuneLab Studio).
• Experience in the fields of natural language processing, computer vision or multi-modal large language models.
• Experience with building and maintaining data pipelines or evaluation frameworks for machine learning systems.

What you'll be doing:

• Design, implement, and deploy improvements to machine learning models (e.g., Product Detection, Video Classification, Timestamp Detection) to enhance accuracy and coverage.
• Build and maintain pipelines for training data curation and model evaluation. Ensure the models learn from shopping signals by managing quality datasets, while developing evaluation frameworks to measure performance and analyze cases.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure new model signals are adopted by downstream systems (e.g., Recommendation system, Creator team, etc).
• Contribute to the back-end infrastructure (e.g., orchestration, storage, serving, freshness) to ensure models run efficiently at YouTube scale, impacting system latency and cost.
• Implement solutions in one or more specialized ML areas, utilize ML infrastructure, and contribute to model optimization and data processing.

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