Software Engineer, Discover Videos Content

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 years of experience with software development in C++ and Python or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
  
• 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, data processing, debugging).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
  
• 1 year of experience building and deploying information retrieval or recommendation systems (e.g., retrieval, prediction, ranking, personalization) in production.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
  
• Experience in Recommendation Systems, Information Retrieval, Search Quality, or Search Infrastructure.
• Experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model evaluation, deployment, data processing, debugging).

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

• Identifying the gap in coverage and quality between videos, and those matching the product idea, through data analysis, evaluation and debugging.
• Leverage multimodal LLM models to understand the video content and generate useful signals for retrieval and ranking.
• Implement, evaluate, and launch changes across all parts of the stack, including indexing, retrieval, scoring, etc.
• Collaborate with partner teams such as user modeling, creator understanding, media infrastructure, Discover infrastructure, etc. to realize, experiment, and launch ideas.
• Build and improve the infrastructure to index and serve video content for Discover.