Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Google Play Books

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures or algorithms.
• 3 years of experience with Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) algorithms and tools or natural language processing.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.
• 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in C++ or Python.
• Experience with machine learning, supervised and unsupervised learning, clustering, semi-supervised learning, anomaly detection, and Large Language Model (LLM) fine-tuning.
• Experience with data analysis and Machine Learning frameworks.
• Knowledge of computer science concepts and Google infrastructure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including databases, operating systems, algorithms, and Machine Learning.

Responsibilities:

• Work on personalization and recommendation solutions for applications, from logging, model training, serving, to online experimentation and evaluation.
• Conduct data analysis to identify areas for improvement and propose solutions.
• Work with cross-functional and adjacent engineering teams (e.g., Commerce, Client, ML infrastructure) to implement user-facing personalization improvements for Google Play Books.