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Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML Recommendations, Rankings, Predictions, YouTube

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Mountain View, CA, USA$174k - $252kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior software engineer role focused on building and deploying AI/ML-based recommendation, ranking, and prediction systems for YouTube, with responsibilities spanning development, collaboration, documentation, debugging, and system design.

Responsibilities

  • Write and test product or system development code.
  • Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency,)
  • Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
  • Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
  • Design and implement recommendation systems models across different domains, leverage ML infrastructure, and contribute to architecture design.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience programming in Python and C++.
  • 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.
  • 3 years of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).

Skills

Required:PythonC++ML / AIDesign and architectureData processing

Benefits

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Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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