Software Engineer III, YouTube Trust and Safety Automation
ZürichFull-timePosted 3d ago
About the role
Software Engineer role focused on building state-of-the-art video content understanding for YouTube Trust & Safety, enabling efficient automated enforcement and supporting review by humans or Large Language Models.
Responsibilities
- Analyze and understand gaps in our Video and Channels content understanding.
- Build classifiers for YouTube videos and livestreams using various modalities (video, image, audio, audio transcripts, metadata).
- Build efficient infrastructure to orchestrate classifiers and take enforcement actions.
- Utilize human review and Gemini compute capacity to maximize safety on the platform.
- Collaborate with research, operations, and product teams and Design, build, productionize, and maintain your solutions.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (C++, Python, SQL), or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
- 1 year of experience with one or more of the following: Speech/audio, reinforcement learning, ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
- 1 year of experience with end-to-end Machine Learning (model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging).
Skills
Required:Programming languagesMachine LearningSoftware development
Nice to have:Speech/audio processingReinforcement learning
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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