The Senior Staff Engineer for YouTube Shorts Ranking will focus on optimizing the user experience and product quality for YouTube's short-form video content. This role involves building large-scale machine learning models and collaborating with various teams, including data scientists and product managers. The engineer will leverage their expertise in machine learning infrastructure to enhance the recommendation systems for YouTube Shorts. This position is critical for developing innovative solutions that improve content discovery and viewer engagement.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy and working with industry-scale ML infrastructure.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture, and testing/launching software products.
• 5 years of experience building and deploying recommendation systems models in production.

• Bring ideas to optimize the shorts feed for better user experiences and overall product quality.
• Build large-scale machine learning models, training infrastructure, and quality evaluation.
• Design ML architecture to support the development of YouTube Shorts.
• Collaborate with data scientists, product managers, front-end engineers, and user experience designers to improve product quality.

• Employees at Google are often offered benefits like comprehensive health insurance, 401(k) matching, and flexible work arrangements, among other benefits.