Tech Lead, YouTube Shorts Discovery, ML Recommendations

What you'll do

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects, manage priorities and deliverables, and align teams on goals and timelines.
• Lead design and implementation in specialized ML areas, optimize ML infrastructure, and guide model optimization and data processing strategies.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.

What they ask for

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development; 5 years testing and launching software products; and 3 years in software design and architecture.
• 5 years of experience in speech/audio, reinforcement learning, or another ML field.
• 5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure, such as model deployment, evaluation, data processing, debugging, or fine tuning.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or PhD in a related technical field; 8 years in data structures and algorithms with experience building distributed, large-scale machine learning systems.
• Experience designing and deploying recommendation, personalized ranking, or retrieval systems; expertise in cold-start, reinforcement learning, or exploration/exploitation algorithms.

Pay

$207000 - $300000 (USD) (base salary)

Tools

ML, LLM

AI focus

Build and improve personalized recommendations, LLM-based recommendation systems, discovery engines, and ML infrastructure for YouTube Shorts.