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Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Discover Interest Modeling

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Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
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**Minimum qualifications:** + Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. + 5 years of experience with machine learning algorithms and tools (e.g., TensorFlow), Recommender Systems, deep learning, or personalization.
**Preferred qualifications:** + Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field. + 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
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Demand for Data Scientist roles

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Data scientists use statistics and models to answer harder questions, such as whether a change worked, what demand will look like next quarter, or which customers are likely to leave.

Postings usually ask for Python or R, SQL, statistics, experiment design and common machine learning methods.

Unlike an ML engineer, a data scientist's main output is often an analysis or a first model, not software running inside a product.

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Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Discover Interest Modeling Share Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Discover Interest Modeling _corporate_fare_ Google _place_ Mountain View, CA, USA **Mid** Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area. Share Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Discover Interest Modeling _info_outline_ XIn most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. **Minimum qualifications:** + Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. + 5 years of experience with machine learning algorithms and tools (e.g., TensorFlow), Recommender Systems, deep learning, or personalization. + 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture. + 3 years of experience building and deploying recommendation systems models (retrieval, prediction, ranking, personalization, search quality, embedding) in production, and experience building architecture. + Experience with deep learning architectures and related algorithms (e.g., Transformers). **Preferred qualifications:** + Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field. + 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms. + 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role. + 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. Discover is Google's personalized interest feed. With daily active users, it is one of the largest feed recommendation products in the world. In this role, the profile captures each person's long-term interests, favorite creators and in-the-moment intent. As these models drive recommendations a day, among the most important personalization signals in downstream ranking, and feed personalization across Google. Every Discover feed starts with us, from a constantly refreshing corpus of articles, videos, creator posts and AI-generated content, our retrieval and pre-ranking stack selects the applicants most relevant to each person. 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. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) . **Responsibilities** + Add predictive modeling of the interests and creators a user will engage with next. Train with multi-objective goals (engagement, satisfaction). + Redesign the interest vocabulary for much higher precision, and evaluate learned alternatives to today's interest vocab. + Build deep, sequence-based token models that learn from long user activity histories across Google products. + Build offline evaluation that predicts online results (profile-quality autoraters, retrieval and ranking metrics), and run well-sliced live experiments. + Design a shared token description, feature set, and training objectives across token types. Information collected and processed as part of your Google Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Google'sApplicant and Candidate Privacy Policy (./privacy-policy) . Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) . If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing ourAccommodations for Applicants form (https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2) . Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting. To all recruitment agencies: Google does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Google employees, or any other organization location. Google is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Equity is granted exclusively and discretionarily by Alphabet Inc. on the basis of an agreement concluded between you and Alphabet Inc. Alphabet Inc. is your sole contractual partner with respect to equity grants. GSU grants are not guaranteed, are discretionary, are subject to approval by the Alphabet Inc. board of directors or its delegate, the terms of the relevant Alphabet Inc. stock plan, and your grant agreement. They have no impact on statutory payments. Current or past grants do not confer an acquired right. 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 https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.
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