Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML, Ads Bidding
New York, NY, USA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 5 years programming; 3 years testing, maintaining, or launching software products; 1 year software design and architecture; 3 years end-to-end Machine Learning; 3 years with one or more of LLMs, Multi-Modality, Large Vision Models, or reinforcement learning. Preferred: 5 years with data structures/algorithms; 1 year technical leadership.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Develop and operate machine-learning models that predict Search Ads user interactions and inform advertiser bids in Google’s Auto-bidding products.
What you'll do
- Write and test product or system development code; collaborate on design and code reviews.
- Design, run, and analyze experiments to solve complex machine-learning problems.
- Improve model quality, stability, and efficiency throughout the lifecycle, from design and training to production deployment and serving.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience programming in Python or C++.
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, plus 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
- 3 years of end-to-end Machine Learning experience and 3 years with LLMs, Multi-Modality, Large Vision Models, or reinforcement learning.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or PhD in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Engineering, or Mathematics.
- 5 years of experience with data structures/algorithms; 1 year in a technical leadership role; or experience developing accessible technologies.
Pay
$174000 - $252000 (USD) base salary
Tools
Python, C++, LLMs, Multi-Modality, Large Vision Models, reinforcement learning, Gemini
AI focus
Build, train, evaluate, deploy, and serve machine-learning models that predict Search Ads user interactions and optimize advertiser bidding; the posting also mentions Generative AI models such as Gemini.
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