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Software Engineering Manager, YouTube Ads Machine Learning

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Mountain View, CA, USA$207k - $300kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Software engineering leadership role leading the YouTube Ads ML team, focusing on building end-to-end ML systems at scale, collaborating with cross-functional partners, and delivering state-of-the-art advertising technology using Generative AI and ML techniques.

Responsibilities

  • Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
  • Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization's goals. Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching.
  • Develop the mid-term technical goals and roadmap within the scope of your (often multiple) team(s). Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
  • Build end to end machine learning systems on large scale data and research novel deep model architectures, read papers, implement and deploy them.
  • Collect ground truth, exploratory models, feature engineering, deep model architectures, live experiments on YouTube users, tuning, metrics analysis.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 5 years of experience leading ML design and optimizing ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
  • 2 years of experience with GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or GenAI-related concepts.
  • 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Skills

Required:Software developmentML design and infrastructureTechnical leadershipGenAI techniques
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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