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November 2, 2025
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Software Engineer, YouTube Ads, Modeling Infrastructure

Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
$141K/yr - $202K/yr
Entry, Mid Level
YouTube is a part of Google and is focused on developing technologies that change how users interact with information. The role involves building modeling infrastructure for high-performance machine learning solutions to enhance video understanding for YouTube Ads, ensuring effective ad targeting and innovative product directions.
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Responsibilities

  • Write product or system development code. Build modeling infrastructure to engineer high performance solutions at YouTube scale, specifically large-scale Machine Learning solutions for solving video understanding problems that impact many new and critical applications in YT Ads. Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure for our real-time brand annotation platform.
  • Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  • Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
  • Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
  • Lead collaborations with client teams, VIA infrastructure, ML research teams, and more.

Qualification

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
  • 2 years of experience in programming in C++ and Python, software engineering, infrastructure design, and machine learning infrastructure.

Preferred

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
  • 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms in either an academic or industry setting.
  • 2 years of experience with performance, large-scale systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging.
  • Experience developing accessible technologies.
  • Experience in building large-scale machine learning or AI systems for real world applications.
  • Proficiency in code and system health, diagnosis and resolution, and software test engineering.

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits
YouTube is a platform for sharing and watching videos, including movies, music clips, and amateur content.
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