Google—Senior Software Engineer, Workspace Search Quality

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Description: Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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. Empower Workspace users to be more productive, by helping them find what they need quickly, confidently, and intuitively. We build consistent, intuitive searching and finding tools and experiences across Workspace that enable users to quickly, reliably, and effectively find any content and information they need to collaborate, stay informed, and be successful at work. We are developing centralized, scalable platforms and cross-app solutions while promoting consistency across Google Workspace. Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems. - Work with teammates to identify opportunities to improve the Search quality by incorporating advanced ML technologies in Search projects. - Build solutions to enable novel Search experiences (e.g. enabling natural language queries). - Design, and implement machine learning models and algorithms for improving search quality. - Solve complex problems related to interactions between different search components like query understanding, knowledge understanding along with ranking. - Handle all technical aspects of development, including technical requirements definition, design, implementation, unit testing, and integration. Requirements: Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. - 5 years of experience programming in Python or C++. - 3 years of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging). - 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products. - 1 year of experience with software design and architecture. - 1 year of experience with GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or with GenAI-related concepts (language modeling, computer vision). Preferred qualifications: - Experience launching and scaling user-facing, large-scale, production quality systems. - Experience with recommender systems. - Experience with software development. - Passion for machine learning technologies, and ML/NLP/Quality. - Strong problem-solving and debugging skills. - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. - 5 years of experience programming in Python or C++. - 3 years of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging). - 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products. - 1 year of experience with software design and architecture. - 1 year of experience with GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or with GenAI-related concepts (language modeling, computer vision). Skills: Google