Software Engineer, YouTube Knowledge

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
  
• 1 year of experience with data structures or algorithms.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor's, Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, with specialization in large distributed systems.
  
• Experience in machine learning or advanced programming.
  
• Experience in software engineering, C++, Python.
  

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

The YouTube Knowledge team works on understanding and organizing YouTube's corpus, helping search and discovery to continue driving YouTube's growth.

In this role, you will be working on a variety of issues, including infrastructure, complex algorithms, data mining, and machine learning including Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI. You will process data sets at YouTube scale (e.g., billions of users, videos and watch time hours). You will apply techniques to improve impactful products from YouTube, including Home, Search, Recommendations and Vertical Experiences (e.g., music, kids, gaming, living room, etc.).

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

Responsibilities

• Be involved in all steps of the lifecycle from design to implementation, testing and productionization.