Senior Staff Software Engineer, Search Ads Monetization
Mountain View, CA, USA · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- 8 years in software development and ML/AI; 8 years testing, maintaining, or launching software products, including 5 years in software design and architecture; 7 years leading technical project strategy, ML design, and ML infrastructure optimization; 2 years with GenAI techniques or related concepts.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads engineering for AI-powered search ads monetization, building scalable systems and tools that improve ad experiences, quality evaluation, and campaign optimization.
What you'll do
- Apply AI/ML, LLMs, and Agentic AI to search ads optimization and product innovation.
- Design, build, and maintain self-service tools and scalable systems for AI/ML quality evaluation and model serving.
- Set technical strategy and collaborate with Search, Ads, Product Management, Data Science, UX, and partner teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages, data structures, and algorithms; 8 years with ML/AI algorithms, tools, deep learning, or other AI/ML modeling.
- 8 years testing, maintaining, or launching software products, including 5 years in software design and architecture.
- 7 years leading technical project strategy, ML design, and ML infrastructure optimization; 2 years with GenAI techniques or related concepts.
Nice to have
- PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, or related fields.
- Experience with GenAI model fine-tuning, LLM development, AI-first production systems, or Search/Ads infrastructure.
Pay
$262000 - $364000 (USD) base salary
Tools
LLMs, Agentic AI, Gemini, C++, Python
AI focus
Uses machine learning, LLMs, Agentic AI, and Generative AI to optimize search ads, improve ad experiences and quality, automate engineering processes, and build model evaluation and serving systems.
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