About the job
Our team is building a new type of YouTube content that brings instantly playable games into the YouTube app and making it possible to create and play games on YouTube, a new experience called playables. Our mission is to empower YouTube creators to seamlessly and intuitively create games through the latest in Google AI technology. In this role you will lead AI efforts for playables game creation. You will guide the team to explore new ways to leverage AI for game creation. You will work with cross-functional team members to develop ways to reduce the barrier to entry for game creation and ensure every prompt a user enters has the best output quality. You will enable new creation features for YouTube creators.
Responsibilities
Build, improve, and integrate agentic AI solutions for game creation, including planning, game code generation and media creation for use in games.
Exhibit strategic impact and own outcomes by defining and building playables features that lead to a sustainable business for YouTube and creators.
Drive alignment with cross-functional partners, and work with cross-organizational teams and collaborate to advance the adoption of new model capabilities.
Develop and guide a small team to integrate generative AI-powered game creation in YouTube to make it accessible to everyone.
Leverage AI for content understanding and secure scanning for AI in playables.
Prototype new ways of creating, sharing and discovering games in YouTube and playables platform.
Qualifications
Minimum
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience in software development.
7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and working with industry-scale ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
5 years of experience with one or more of the following: speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
Preferred
Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
Experience with generative AI tools and models to create apps or games.