About the job
App Ads is one of the fastest growing businesses in Google Ads, with an annual run rate of over $20B. Our business drives a significant portion of business growth for Google overall. It affects the lives of users around the world by helping them find new games, plan vacations, and shop for great deals or fun experiences, etc. Our team delivers engineering innovations to improve the App Ads Quality and provide key technologies to empower App Ads business growth. We focus on building machine learning models to predict users’ interaction with ads, and combining them with principled optimization techniques to help publishers monetize their content and advertisers acquire engaged users.
Responsibilities
Design new deep learning based ML models to predict users’ interaction with different ad formats across Google’s various ad delivery channels.
Incorporate and engineer input features from ad creatives, publisher pages/content, as well as users’ personalized ad history to improve models’ accuracy.
Improve the efficiency and reliability of ML models by designing novel model architectures and adopting development and release processes.
Debug and troubleshoot advertiser performance problems.
Work with Product Management, UX, and partner teams to design and deliver new ad experiences.
Leverage data and metrics to help evaluate product success and drive business decisions.
Qualifications
Minimum
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience in software development.
5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
5 years of experience with ML/AI algorithms and tools, deep learning or other AI/ML modeling.
Preferred
8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
3 years of experience working in a complex organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
Experience with advertising products, quality work in ads, or with statistical modeling and experimentation/analysis.
Experience in quality or modeling engineering teams.