Senior Staff Software Engineer, Search Ads Monetization
Mountain View, CA, USA$262k - $364kFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Senior Staff Software Engineer role focusing on applying AI/ML (including GenAI) to optimize search ads monetization, with ownership of outcomes, complex problem solving, and cross-functional collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Leverage AI/ML advancements, including LLMs and Agentic AI, to solve critical optimisation problems across search ads, from product innovation to agentic automation.
- Drive 10x better ads experiences compared to what we have today in the world of AI.
- Identify gaps in existing engineering processes and solve using AI-driven automation.
- Collaborate with teams across Search and Ads and cross-functional partners - Product Management, Data Science and UX. Build relationships with AdsAI, GDM and other Ads partners to jointly explore more in leveraging AI in ads.
- Design, build, and maintain self-service tools and platform features that embed these advanced AI/ML quality evaluation methods.
- Architect scalable systems for deploying and serving AI/ML models specifically for data quality assessment tasks.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages, data structures, and algorithms.
- 8 years of experience with ML/AI algorithms, tools, deep learning, or other AI/ML modeling.
- 8 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 5 years with software design and architecture.
- 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and optimizing ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine-tuning).
- 2 years of experience with GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or GenAI-related concepts (language modeling, computer vision).
Skills
Required:AI/MLGenAISoftware design and architectureCollaboration across teams
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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